Butts Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. Cottage.

Butts Cottage

WRENN ID
low-cinder-linden
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dartmoor National Park
Constituency
Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
Country
England
Type
Cottage
Address
Butts Cottage, Dunsford, Teignbridge
OS grid reference
SX 807 892
Coordinates
50.69088, -3.68946
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Butts Cottage is a cottage dating from the early 18th century, constructed of whitewashed rendered cob with a thatched roof that has a gable at the left end. The left end features a projecting stack with a bread oven. The cottage has a two-room plan, with a hall/kitchen on the left heated by the gable end stack, and a smaller unheated room on the right. The partition between these rooms has been removed, and there is a 20th-century addition at the rear of the left-hand room. It is unclear if Butts Cottage was originally part of a single property with Cleve Cottage.

The building stands two storeys high and has an irregular two-window front. The front door is slightly to the right of center and features studs and strap hinges. The windows are small casements, with two panes per light, except for the ground floor right window, which is a two-light iron casement with old leaded panes. Inside, there is an open fireplace with a plain timber lintel and exposed joists, with a staircase located against the rear wall of the hall/kitchen. The roof space has not been inspected. Butts Cottage is an attractive small thatched cottage that faces the road and forms a group with Cleve Cottage.

Local climate

Butts Cottage receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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