Lowertown Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 November 1985. Cottage.
Lowertown Cottage
- WRENN ID
- winter-cloister-foxglove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Devon
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 November 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Lowertown Cottage, Coryton
- OS grid reference
- SX 461 842
- Coordinates
- 50.63776, -4.17657
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lowertown Cottage is a Grade II listed building, originally two cottages, and part of a group of estate cottages built by the Newman family in the mid to late 19th century. The cottage is constructed of stone rubble with granite dressings and features an asbestos slate hipped roof that is gableted at the ends. It has a central stone stack with a brick shaft on the ridge and a double depth plan, which indicates it was formerly two separate cottages heated from the central stack. The building is two storeys high with a two-window front. There is a gabled stone porch on the left side, while a second porch has been removed and the doorway is now blocked. The ground floor windows are three-light casements with four panes per light, and the first floor has similar two-light casements. This cottage is part of an attractive group of mid to late 19th-century estate cottages.
Local climate
Lowertown 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 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% 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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