Paradise Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 February 1988. Cottage.

Paradise Cottage

WRENN ID
mired-pinnacle-tarn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Devon
Constituency
Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 February 1988
Type
Cottage
Address
Paradise Cottage, Iddesleigh
OS grid reference
SS 557 072
Coordinates
50.84697, -4.05102
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Paradise Cottage is a cottage with an adjoining integral outbuilding, dating from the mid to late 17th century and modernised in the late 20th century. It features rendered cob walls and a thatched roof that is hipped at the left end and gabled at the right end, with a brick stack at the right gable end. The cottage has a two-room plan with the integral outbuilding on the left-hand side, while the right-hand room is heated.

The exterior is two storeys high with a regular two-window front, where the windows are positioned towards the right-hand end, which is the main part of the house. It has 20th-century two-light casement windows and a central 20th-century plank door. Inside, the fireplace has a cambered wooden lintel that is chamfered with a hollow step stop at the left end, and there is a brick oven. One original roof truss remains, featuring a cambered collar that is halved and dovetailed onto the straight principals, with mortices in its soffit for a partition.

Local climate

Paradise Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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