Cob Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 October 1987. Cottage.

Cob Cottage

WRENN ID
gilded-keep-marsh
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Devon
Constituency
Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 October 1987
Type
Cottage
Address
Cob Cottage, North Street, North Tawton, EX20 2DE
OS grid reference
SS 664 018
Coordinates
50.80096, -3.89715
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Cob Cottage is a group of three cottages that were originally one house, dating from the 16th century with alterations in the 17th century, and likely divided in the 19th century. The building features rendered cob walls and a gable-ended thatched roof, with two rendered stacks—one offset from the ridge at the left gable end and one at the right gable end. The current layout includes a one-room plan cottage to the left, while the right-hand cottage has one room at the front and another in a rear wing. It is believed that the original layout may have been a two or three-room plan with a through passage, possibly truncated at one end. There is likely a 17th or 18th-century wing behind the right-hand end that was divided off to form Cob Cottage.

The exterior is two storeys high with an asymmetrical three-window front, where No. 21 is on the left and No. 23 is on the right. The first floor features 20th-century two-light casements in small openings. No. 21 has a 19th-century two-light small-paned casement to the left and a 20th-century part-glazed door to the right. No. 23 has a three-light small-paned 20th-century casement to the right of a 20th-century part-glazed door. The wing extends to the rear, part of which constitutes Cob Cottage. Inside No. 21, there is evidence of an early truss with curved feet on the first floor, although there is no access to it in the roof space.

Local climate

Cob Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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