Thornbury Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 October 1987. Cottage.
Thornbury Cottage
- WRENN ID
- inner-clay-jay
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Devon
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 October 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Thornbury Cottage, Sampford Courtenay
- OS grid reference
- SS 626 011
- Coordinates
- 50.7937, -3.95048
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Thornbury Cottage is a cottage dating from the early to mid-18th century, with 19th and 20th-century extensions. The walls are made of rendered rubble and cob, topped with a thatched roof that has a gabled front range and a hipped rear wing. There are two gable end stacks, with the left-hand stack made of brick and the right-hand stack constructed from projecting rendered rubble with a brick shaft. The layout consists of a two-room plan with a one-room and stair wing behind the left-hand room. Both front rooms are heated, although the left-hand stack may have been added later. A rear wing features a 19th-century outshut, and a single-storey extension was added in the late 20th century. The cottage is two storeys high and has a regular two-window front with 20th-century two-light small-paned casements. There is a 20th-century lean-to porch at the right-hand end. At the rear, the hipped wing on the right has a one-storey extension in front of it and a 19th-century outshut to the left. The interior was inaccessible during the survey, but most original features seem to be hidden.
Local climate
Thornbury Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 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 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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