Rock Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1987. Toll house, house.

Rock Cottage

WRENN ID
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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
Toll house, house
Address
Rock Cottage, Gulworthy
OS grid reference
SX 450 711
Coordinates
50.51991, -4.18651
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Rock Cottage is a toll house that has been converted into a residence, dating from around 1840, with a 20th-century addition at the rear. The building features a mix of materials including rubble, rendered surfaces, and slate-hung cladding at the first floor level. It has a brick porch and a low-pitched tiled hipped roof with head rolls at the hips. There is a rubble chimney stack at the rear, a slate roof on the rear wing, and an asbestos slate roof on the 20th-century addition.

The cottage has a square one-room plan with the entrance located on a splayed corner and a chimney stack on the side wall. The stairs are situated in an original service wing at the back. The building stands two storeys high, with three sides visible from the front. The central narrow splayed corner features a gabled porch with a slate-hung gable and a 20th-century door, along with a small two-light casement window above.

On the left side, there is a two-light casement window with glazing bars on both the ground and first floors. The right side has a similar two-light casement at ground level and a 16-pane sash window on the first floor, along with a single-storey lean-to set in the angle. The large two-storey 20th-century addition on the right end has two windows with casements, slate-hung at the first floor level and rendered below. The left side of this addition features a single light with glazing bars at the ground floor. The rear wing includes a lean-to. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Rock 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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