Bidlake Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. Cottage.
Bidlake Cottage
- WRENN ID
- former-floor-quill
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Devon
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Bidlake Cottage, Germansweek
- OS grid reference
- SX 439 942
- Coordinates
- 50.72714, -4.21279
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bidlake Cottage is a 17th-century cottage located in Germansweek. It features rendered cob and rubble walls and has a thatched roof that is half hipped on the left side and gabled on the right. The cottage has a projecting rendered rubble stack at the right gable end with a brick shaft. The layout consists of a two-room plan with a central entrance; the larger heated room is on the right, while the unheated service room is on the left. The building is two storeys high and has a regular one-window front. There are two windows on the ground floor, which are early 20th-century casements with glazing bars, arranged as two-light except for the right-hand window, which is three-light. A central lean-to open fronted porch is accessed by steps and features a 19th-century plank door behind it. The interior was inaccessible during the survey but may include original features such as beams, fireplaces, and roof timbers.
Local climate
Bidlake Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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- Sale history — 5 transactions since 2000
- No related consent applications matched
- 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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