Swan Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 February 1988. House.

Swan Cottage

WRENN ID
tilted-hearth-storm
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Devon
Constituency
Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 February 1988
Type
House
Address
Swan Cottage, Jacobstowe
OS grid reference
SS 586 015
Coordinates
50.79653, -4.00659
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Swan Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century and around the late 18th century. The walls are partly rendered cob and partly brick, with a gable-ended thatch roof over the cob section and a hipped slate roof over the brick section. There are two brick stacks, one at each end of the cob and thatch part. The older section on the left consists of two rooms, each heated by an end fireplace. This part was originally integrated with the adjoining cottages to the left, but its original layout is unclear. The 18th-century addition on the right end is likely a high-quality parlour.

The cottage is two storeys high with an asymmetrical four-window front. The right-hand section, which is a brick 18th-century addition, projects slightly and is lower than the older part. The left-hand section features 20th-century casements with two and three lights, while the brick part has a late 19th-century six-pane sash window on the first floor and a three-light 20th-century casement below it. There is a lean-to brick porch against the left-hand end of the brick section, which has a 20th-century plank door and a narrow stained glass light to its right. The right-hand end of the building has three full-height segmental arched recessed panels that originally contained arched windows on the first floor. The central panel now has a 20th-century tripartite 20-pane sash window, with a single-light 20th-century casement in the left panel, and below are one and two-light 20th-century casements and a glazed door to the right.

Inside, the older part features a chamfered axial beam and an open fireplace with a chamfered and stopped wooden lintel. The roof has simple pegged A-frame trusses, likely from the 19th century.

Local climate

Swan 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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