Tavy Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1983. Cottage.
Tavy Cottage
- WRENN ID
- long-railing-crag
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Devon
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Tavy Cottage, Okehampton Road, Tavistock
- OS grid reference
- SX 492 757
- Coordinates
- 50.56215, -4.12921
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tavy Cottage is an early 19th century cottage ornée, featuring one storey and an attic with a stucco exterior. The roof is covered with slate, and there are chimneys grouped at the centre of the roof with brick stacks set diagonally. The cottage has three Gothic dormers and a central splayed bay. A verandah is supported by two wooden posts. Inside, there are good period fireplaces.
Local climate
Tavy 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 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1998
- No related consent applications matched
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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