Castle Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 March 1988. Cottage.
Castle Cottage
- WRENN ID
- steep-jamb-martin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dartmoor National Park
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 March 1988
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Castle Cottage, Drewsteignton, West Devon
- OS grid reference
- SX 722 904
- Coordinates
- 50.69941, -3.80982
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Castle Cottage is a cottage, likely built for the bailiff or steward of Castle Drogo, around 1930. It is probably designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens. The cottage features coursed blocks of massive granite ashlar, a granite stack with a granite ashlar chimney shaft, and a slate roof. The building has a double depth plan, with the main room or rooms located at the front and 2 or 3 service rooms at the rear, all arranged around a single massive central axial stack. The rear rooms project on either side behind the front. The main doorway is situated to the left of the angle between the front and rear sections, and the position of the stairs is not known. The exterior has a symmetrical three-window arrangement of timber casements with glazing bars on the main front, though the distribution of other windows is not documented. There is an open porch in the angle with a hipped roof. The main roof is tall, steeply pitched, and hipped at both ends on the front and rear sections. The interior has not been inspected. Castle Cottage is part of Lutyens's Castle Drogo scheme.
Local climate
Castle Cottage receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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