Cottage About 15 Metres South-East of Higher Combe Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 July 1986. Cottage.

Cottage About 15 Metres South-East of Higher Combe Farmhouse

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dartmoor National Park
Constituency
Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 July 1986
Type
Cottage
OS grid reference
SX 775 825
Coordinates
50.62958, -3.73279
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This cottage, located about 15 meters southeast of Higher Combe Farmhouse, is likely from the 17th century and was used as a farm building until it was converted back to a cottage in the 20th century. It is constructed of granite rubble and features a thatched roof that is hipped at the south end. The north gable has a granite ashlar chimneystack with weatherings and a cap made of a projecting stone course, topped with a short, narrower shaft.

The cottage is two storeys high and has 20th-century small-paned wood casement windows, along with a 20th-century glazed door that has a pantiled hood above it. In the north gable, there is a 18th-century wood window with two lights, originally unglazed, each containing two diagonally-set vertical bars. On the west front, there is a small opening, now glazed, with a wooden lintel, which has a large granite feeding trough set into its bottom half. Although the interior was not inspected, it is known that the north ground-storey room has a large open fireplace.

The cottage is part of a notable group with two barns located on the south and west sides of the garden, which are separately listed, along with an ash house about 20 meters to the southwest. The farmhouse itself, which is not included in this listing, has undergone significant remodeling in the early 20th century, but retains two 16th or 17th-century granite ashlar chimneys with thatch weatherings and tapered caps on the ridge at the east end.

Local climate

Cottage About 15 Metres South-East of Higher Combe Farmhouse receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% 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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