No 7 and Adjoining Cottage to Left is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 February 1988. Cottage.
No 7 and Adjoining Cottage to Left
- WRENN ID
- over-casement-furze
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Devon
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 February 1988
- Type
- Cottage
- OS grid reference
- SS 586 015
- Coordinates
- 50.79648, -4.00684
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 7 and the adjoining cottage to the left are a pair of cottages dating from around the mid-17th century. They feature plastered cob walls and gable-ended thatch roofs, with a brick stack at each end. Each cottage appears to have a two-room plan, with the outer room of each heated. There is a 19th-century outshut behind the right-hand cottage. Originally, they were constructed as a single unit with Swan Cottage to the right.
The exterior is two storeys high with an asymmetrical three-window front. The right-hand cottage has two early 20th-century small-paned two-light casements and a 20th-century plank door to the left. The left-hand cottage, No. 7, has an outshut on its left side, with the thatch roof extending in a catslide over it. It features late 20th-century two-light casements without glazing bars and a lean-to 20th-century porch at the angle with the outshut, which has a part-glazed door.
Inside No. 7, there is a fireplace with a high moulded wooden lintel. The roof structure is integral with that of the adjoining Swan Cottage to the right and, although it dates from the 19th century, it incorporates some smoke-blackened timbers.
Local climate
No 7 and Adjoining Cottage to Left 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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