Cranford Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. Cottage.

Cranford Cottage

WRENN ID
stranded-rood-primrose
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Devon
Constituency
Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
Country
England
Type
Cottage
Address
Cranford Cottage, Bridestowe
OS grid reference
SX 525 879
Coordinates
50.67283, -4.08774
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Cranford Cottage is a cottage dating from the early 19th century. It features colourwashed rubble walls and a gable-ended asbestos slate roof, with a rendered stack at the right gable end. The cottage has a two-room layout, with direct entry into the larger heated room on the right, which serves as the kitchen and living room. To the left, there is a staircase at the front and a small dairy at the rear. In the 20th century, a single-storey extension was added at the back to accommodate a bathroom.

The cottage stands two storeys high and has an asymmetrical front with two windows, featuring 19th-century small-paned casements. There is an early 20th-century plank door to the left of the centre. Notably, there is no ground floor window to the left of the door because that area contains the stairs. At the rear, there is a window for the dairy, and a 20th-century lean-to is located to its left.

Inside, the cottage remains largely unaltered. The main room includes an open fireplace that once housed a range. Cranford Cottage is a modest example of a building type that is becoming increasingly rare.

Local climate

Cranford Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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