Bank Cottage Little Hilly Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 October 1987. House.
Bank Cottage Little Hilly Cottage
- WRENN ID
- empty-flagstone-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Devon
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 October 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Bank Cottage Little Hilly Cottage, Sampford Courtenay
- OS grid reference
- SS 632 010
- Coordinates
- 50.79269, -3.9411
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Little Hilly Cottage and Bank Cottage are a pair of houses that may have originally been one house, dating from the 17th century and significantly altered in the 20th century. They feature rendered cob walls, with the left-hand cottage having a corrugated asbestos roof and Little Hilly Cottage covered with thatch, which dips at each end. There are two axial brick stacks and one at the right-hand end.
In terms of layout, Little Hilly Cottage has a two-room plan that extends on the first floor over a carriageway below. Bank Cottage also originally had a two-room plan but has been subdivided later. The exterior is two storeys high. Little Hilly Cottage has an asymmetrical front with three windows, featuring 20th-century two and three-light casements. There is a 20th-century plank and part-glazed door to the left of the centre, and the right-hand end has a carriageway beneath it. Bank Cottage has an asymmetrical front with four windows, which includes small-paned 19th-century casements on the first floor and 20th-century casements on the ground floor. The right-hand window is in a blocked doorway, and there is a 20th-century stable-type door to the left of the centre.
Inside, Little Hilly Cottage has an open fireplace in the left-hand room, which includes an oven.
Local climate
Bank Cottage Little Hilly Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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