Haycroft Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. A C17 Cottage.

Haycroft Cottage

WRENN ID
floating-banister-ash
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dartmoor National Park
Constituency
Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
Country
England
Type
Cottage
Address
Haycroft Cottage, Throwleigh, West Devon
OS grid reference
SX 686 883
Coordinates
50.67954, -3.86
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Haycroft Cottage is a cottage that may have originally been a detached bakehouse, likely built in the 17th century and modernised around 1980. It is constructed from granite stone rubble, with the front plastered, and features a granite stack and chimney shaft with a large oven projection. The cottage has a thatched roof and a two-room plan, facing north and backing onto the road. The left room includes a large projecting end stack.

The exterior has a regular but not symmetrical two-window front, which contains 20th-century casements without glazing bars, similar to those at the rear. At the left end, there is a 20th-century door with a contemporary slate-roofed porch, and the roof is hipped to the left. The interior was not available for inspection at the time of the survey. Haycroft Cottage is part of a group of attractive listed buildings in Murchington.

Local climate

Haycroft 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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