South Lake Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 November 1986. House.

South Lake Cottage

WRENN ID
vacant-chalk-lark
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dartmoor National Park
Constituency
Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 November 1986
Type
House
Address
South Lake Cottage, Widecombe in the Moor, Teignbridge
OS grid reference
SX 704 721
Coordinates
50.53476, -3.82891
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

South Lake Cottage is a house, formerly a longhouse, dating from the 16th or 17th century, with the shippon end on the right rebuilt in the 20th century. It features solid roughcast walls, likely made of stone, and an asbestos-slated roof. A large, painted granite ashlar chimneystack with thatch weathering and a tapered cap is located at the center of the ridge, probably serving the former hall. The original layout likely included two domestic rooms on the left and the shippon on the right. The house is two storeys high and two windows wide, with late 19th or early 20th century casements that have glazing bars. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

South Lake Cottage receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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