Woodbrooke Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1985. Cottage.

Woodbrooke Cottage

WRENN ID
sacred-arch-fog
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dartmoor National Park
Constituency
Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 May 1985
Type
Cottage
Address
Woodbrooke Cottage, Cheriton Bishop, Mid Devon
OS grid reference
SX 775 908
Coordinates
50.70461, -3.73552
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Woodbrooke Cottage is a cottage and adjoining outbuildings, now serving as a house. The cottage dates from the 18th century, while the outbuildings are from the 19th century. It is constructed of plastered cob on rubble footings, with cob, rubble, and brick stacks, and has an asbestos tile or slate roof, which was formerly thatch.

The original cottage features two rooms: a small unheated room to the right, which is now at the center, and a larger room with a large projecting stack in the left gable end. There is a cob party wall connecting to a former barn attached to the right end of the cottage, which has a 20th-century brick stack on the right gable end. A rear extension runs alongside the road.

The cottage is two storeys high and faces south, presenting an overall four-window front with late 19th-century and 20th-century wooden casements, along with a 20th-century glass-walled conservatory to the left of the door, which is under a gabled corrugated iron roof. To the right of the door, the head beam of the barn entry is partly exposed. The late 19th-century rear extension serves as a store with a hay loft above.

Inside the cottage, there is a chamfered beam with run-out stops and a large rubble fireplace with an oak lintel, also chamfered with run-out stops, along with some original joinery and fittings.

Local climate

Woodbrooke Cottage receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 29 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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