Pair of Disused Cottages Adjoining South-West End of Langston Farmhouse (North) is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. Cottage.

Pair of Disused Cottages Adjoining South-West End of Langston Farmhouse (North)

WRENN ID
open-postern-larch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dartmoor National Park
Constituency
Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
Country
England
Type
Cottage
OS grid reference
SX 673 900
Coordinates
50.69535, -3.88004
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

A pair of cottages, originally a single house, dates to the 17th century, and was likely divided into two cottages during the 19th century. The building is constructed of granite stone rubble with shaped quoins and a corrugated iron roof (formerly thatched). The original design featured a two-room plan, built across a hillside, with a central lobby entrance. The original staircase was likely in a turret that projects from the right front end. In the 19th century, the house was divided into two one-room plan cottages, with a new staircase added to the left room. The right side may have been converted to store rooms at some point. The cottages are now unoccupied and the first floors serve as haylofts, accessed from a rear terrace.

The front elevation now has only one window, an unglazed and shuttered opening on the ground floor to the left. Original features include a front door, blocked windows, and a blocked doorway with a blocked first-floor window above. A small blocked window is present in the stair turret. The roof is gable-ended. A 19th-century doorway with a plank door and a 17th-century oak two-light window with a chamfered mullion are on the right end wall. The rear wall has been rebuilt in the 20th century, with doorways providing access from the rear terrace.

The interior contains plain carpentry. Both ground floor rooms have roughly-finished crossbeams and granite fireplaces with soffit-chamfered oak lintels. The right-hand fireplace includes a side oven. The roof in the right room is a 20th-century replacement. The building is notable as a small cottage associated with Langston Farmhouse and contributes to a group of picturesque buildings, including Langston Farmhouse (south).

Local climate

Pair of Disused Cottages Adjoining South-West End of Langston Farmhouse (North) 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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