The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 March 1988. Cottage.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- fallow-lancet-crag
- 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
- The Cottage, South Tawton, West Devon
- OS grid reference
- SX 652 944
- Coordinates
- 50.7336, -3.91023
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a cottage, probably from the 18th century. It features plastered walls, granite stone rubble or cob, and stone rubble stacks topped with 20th-century brick. The roof is thatched. The cottage has a two-room plan with a central entrance facing east. Each room has a gable end stack, with the right stack projecting, and there is a service outshot on the left (south) end. It is two storeys high. The exterior has an irregular three-window front with 20th-century casements and glazing bars. The roughly central front doorway contains a 19th-century part-glazed six-panel door, which is sheltered by a 20th-century gabled porch with a thatched roof. The roof is gable-ended to the right and hipped to the left over the woodshed outshot. The interior was not available for inspection during the survey. The Cottage is part of a group of attractive listed buildings that enhance the picturesque village centre.
Local climate
The Cottage 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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