Thorn Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. Cottage.
Thorn Cottage
- WRENN ID
- pitched-porch-rush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dartmoor National Park
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Thorn Cottage, Chagford, West Devon
- OS grid reference
- SX 684 865
- Coordinates
- 50.66415, -3.86239
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Thorn Cottage is a cottage built in the late 19th to early 20th century. It is constructed from granite stone rubble with granite stacks topped by brick chimney shafts from the same period, and it has a thatched roof. The building has a T-shaped plan, with the main block facing south featuring a two-room layout, end stacks, and a central entrance hall with a staircase. There is a one-room plan rear block that projects at a right angle from the center. The cottage is two storeys tall.
The exterior has a nearly symmetrical front with two windows, which are late 19th to early 20th century casements with glazing bars. The front doorway, located just left of center, has a plank door and a fixed pane window beside it that features a geometric pattern of leaded glass. The first-floor windows are adorned with thatch eyebrows, and the roof is hipped at both ends. The rear block has a gable end.
The interior has not been inspected. Thorn Cottage is part of a group of varied listed buildings that make up the hamlet of Thorn.
Local climate
Thorn 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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