Tamar Valley Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1987. House.
Tamar Valley Cottage
- WRENN ID
- upper-zinc-rush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Devon
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 January 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Tamar Valley Cottage, Gulworthy
- OS grid reference
- SX 438 723
- Coordinates
- 50.52985, -4.20429
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tamar Valley Cottage is a house built in the early 19th century, with additions made in the mid-19th century and some alterations in the 20th century. The exterior is finished in painted rubble, topped with an asbestos slate roof featuring gable ends and paired wooden brackets at the eaves, while the second rear wing retains its slates. The building showcases a picturesque Gothic style with gable end stacks that have cornices.
The cottage has a two-room layout with a central entrance and passage. To the right is the original rear service wing, and a second rear service wing has been added parallel to the first, also featuring a gable end stack. The overall shape of the cottage is an irregular L-plan. It is a single-storey structure with a central four-panelled door that has an overlight with glazing bars. On either side of the door are triangular-headed windows, each a two-light casement with six panes and Y-tracery, topped with a flat painted head. The gable ends on both sides have similar windows.
At the rear, there are two single-storey wings. The left wing, part of the original build, has a gable end window with Y-tracery and a two-light casement under the eaves on the outer side. There is a small single-storey outbuilding attached to the gable end featuring a two-pane light. The right wing has a two-span roof at a slightly lower level, with a door and a two-light casement in the gable end, along with a 20th-century glazed lean-to. The outer side of this wing has a two-light eight-pane casement under the eaves and a stack at the junction with the main front range. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Tamar Valley Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 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 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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