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
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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