Langdown Cross Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 March 1988. Cottages.
Langdown Cross Cottages
- WRENN ID
- rooted-balcony-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Devon
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 March 1988
- Type
- Cottages
- Address
- Langdown Cross Cottages, South Tawton
- OS grid reference
- SX 675 967
- Coordinates
- 50.75478, -3.87841
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Langdown Cross Cottages are two cottages, likely built in the late 18th to early 19th century. They are constructed from local stone rubble, featuring larger and more neatly dressed quoins, with some plastered cob on the tops of the walls. The cottages have a stone rubble stack topped with brick and a thatched roof. The layout consists of a pair of contemporary two-room plan cottages facing southeast, each mirroring the other. Each cottage has an outer entrance leading into a small unheated room, while the larger inner rooms are heated by a central axial stack that serves back-to-back fireplaces. The buildings are two storeys high, with possible secondary outshots at the rear. The exterior displays a symmetrical four-window front with 20th-century replacement casements that include glazing bars. There is a doorway at each end, both of which have 20th-century doors set behind contemporary gabled porches. The roof is half-hipped at both ends. The interiors have not been inspected.
Local climate
Langdown Cross Cottages 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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