Carbery and Bracon Cottages and Adjoining Cottage to East is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1967. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Carbery and Bracon Cottages and Adjoining Cottage to East
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-obsidian-tallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dartmoor National Park
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1967
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Carbery and Bracon Cottages and Adjoining Cottage to East, EX20 2NW
- OS grid reference
- SX 641 941
- Coordinates
- 50.73065, -3.92622
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Carbery and Bracon Cottages, along with an adjoining cottage to the east, form a row of three cottages dating from the late 17th century. They feature rendered stone rubble walls and a thatched roof that is hipped at the left-hand end and gabled at the right, where it connects to adjacent houses. There is a brick stack at the left-hand end and two axial stone stacks, with the right-hand one being a double stack made of granite ashlar.
In terms of layout, Carbery Cottage on the left has a one-room plan, Bracon Cottage has two rooms, and the adjoining cottage on the right also has a one-room plan. Each cottage has one room that is heated, and there is a 19th-century addition at the rear.
The exterior is two storeys high and has an asymmetrical front with four windows, featuring early 20th-century two-light casements and slight eyebrows in the thatch over some first-floor windows. Bracon Cottage has a two-window front, while the others have a one-window front. Carbery Cottage has a 20th-century stable-type door to the right, which is located under a gabled door hood. There is a passageway to the right that runs from the front to the rear of the building. Bracon Cottage has a 20th-century part-glazed door at the center, and the cottage to its right has a similar door.
Inside Bracon Cottage, there is a roughly chamfered ceiling beam and what is likely the original roof structure, which consists of straight principals with lapped and pegged collars, a morticed apex, and purlins running along their backs.
Local climate
Carbery and Bracon Cottages and Adjoining Cottage to East 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 9 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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