Rosemary Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 October 1987. House. 1 related planning application.

Rosemary Cottage

WRENN ID
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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
Rosemary Cottage, Exbourne, EX20 3RU
OS grid reference
SS 602 020
Coordinates
50.80135, -3.98477
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Rosemary Cottage is a small house dating from the 16th century, with alterations made in the 20th century. The walls are of rendered cob, and the roof is thatched with a gable end. There is a rendered stack at the right gable and a rendered rubble stack at the rear, axial to an adjoining property. The house has a two-room plan, with a rear wing on the left-hand side that is now partly within the adjoining property. The right-hand room was originally heated by a gable end fireplace.

The exterior has an asymmetrical two-window front. It features 20th-century two-light casement windows, with a single-light window on the ground floor to the left, and dormers to the first-floor windows. A central gabled 20th-century porch has a panelled and glazed door. The left-hand end of the house is recessed and gabled.

Inside, the right-hand and central rooms (originally one) have deep, richly moulded cross beams. The fireplace in the right-hand room has dressed granite stone jambs and a wooden lintel, although the lintel is partly obscured. The roof was inaccessible during the survey, but the feet of substantial trusses with threaded purlins are visible in the first-floor rooms, suggesting an early date.

Local climate

Rosemary 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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