Taw Leat and Cottage Adjoining to Left is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 October 1987. A C18 Cottages.
Taw Leat and Cottage Adjoining to Left
- WRENN ID
- strange-hearth-pine
- 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
- Cottages
- OS grid reference
- SX 642 940
- Coordinates
- 50.73008, -3.92415
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Taw Leat and the cottage adjoining to the left are a pair of cottages, likely built in the early 18th century. They feature rendered rubble and cob walls, topped with a gable-ended thatch roof. The left gable end has a large projecting plastered rubble stack, while there is an axial brick stack situated between the two cottages.
The exterior is two storeys high with an asymmetrical four-window front. Taw Leat, located on the right, has 20th-century replacement windows and an early to mid-19th century six-panel door positioned to the right of centre, sheltered by a thatch door hood. The left-hand cottage displays 19th-century small-paned casements with four and two lights on the first floor, and a three-light window to the left on the ground floor. To the right on the ground floor, there is a 20th-century single-pane window. The door on this cottage is identical to that of Taw Leat.
The interior was inaccessible during the survey, but the plan indicates that each cottage has a two-room layout, with a larger heated room on the left and an entry leading into a smaller unheated room on the right.
Local climate
Taw Leat and Cottage Adjoining to Left 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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