Willhay Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 October 1987. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Willhay Cottage
- WRENN ID
- roaming-parapet-gilt
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Devon
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 October 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Willhay Cottage, Exbourne, EX20 3RX
- OS grid reference
- SS 602 019
- Coordinates
- 50.80057, -3.98414
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Willhay Cottage is a 17th-century cottage with 19th and 20th-century additions, located in Exbourne. The building features rendered cob walls and a thatched roof, which has a gable at the left end and is hipped at the front of the wing. There is a brick axial stack. The original layout was likely a two-room plan, with the larger room on the left heated by the axial stack. An outshot was added to the front of the right side of the house, reportedly for use as a shop, and this was made two storeys high in the 20th century. The exterior is two storeys tall with an asymmetrical two-window front, featuring small 20th-century two-light casements, with one window in a half dormer on the first floor. A 20th-century glazed door is located at the centre, beneath a thatched door hood. The wing projects to the right. The interior does not show any visible early features, but some may be hidden.
Local climate
Willhay Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2023
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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