The Old Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 October 1987. House.
The Old Cottage
- WRENN ID
- carved-ashlar-thunder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dartmoor National Park
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 October 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Cottage, Sticklepath, Okehampton, West Devon
- OS grid reference
- SX 640 941
- Coordinates
- 50.73065, -3.92826
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Cottage is a house dating from the mid to late 17th century, with an addition from the 18th century. It features rendered stone rubble walls and a thatched roof that is gabled on the left side and hipped on the right. There is a central axial brick stack. The original layout consisted of a two-room plan with a baffle entry in front of the axial stack, which served back-to-back fireplaces. An 18th-century wing has been added to the rear of the right-hand room. The exterior is two storeys high, with a regular two-window front that includes early 20th-century three-light casements. The central entrance is a 19th-century plank and part-glazed door, sheltered by a thatched door hood. Although the interior was not accessible during the survey, it is noted to contain 18th-century two-panel doors and likely has exposed ceiling beams.
Local climate
The Old Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 960 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 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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