Willow Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 October 1987. House. 1 related planning application.
Willow Cottage
- WRENN ID
- quiet-grate-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Devon
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 October 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Willow Cottage, Exbourne, EX20 3RP
- OS grid reference
- SS 601 020
- Coordinates
- 50.80125, -3.98545
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Willow Cottage is a small house dating from the 17th century, with a 19th-century addition. It features rendered cob walls and a gable-ended thatched roof, along with a projecting rubble stack at the right gable end topped with a brick shaft. The original layout consisted of a two-room plan, with a heated room on the right and likely a central passage. A very narrow unheated wing was probably added in the 19th century in front of the left-hand room. The cottage is two storeys high and has an asymmetrical front with two windows. The first floor has 19th-century small-paned two-light casements, while the ground floor features 20th-century casements. To the left, there is a 19th-century panelled and part-glazed door. The narrow wing with splayed corners projects from the left end and has a three-light 20th-century casement on each floor. The interior was inaccessible at the time of the survey.
Local climate
Willow 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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