Wisteria Cottage and Old Forge Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 May 1986. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Wisteria Cottage and Old Forge Cottage
- WRENN ID
- rooted-string-jackdaw
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dartmoor National Park
- Constituency
- South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 May 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Wisteria Cottage and Old Forge Cottage, South Brent, South Hams, TQ10 9JL
- OS grid reference
- SX 695 606
- Coordinates
- 50.43123, -3.83826
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wisteria Cottage and Old Forge Cottage is a Grade II listed building located in South Brent, Lydia Bridge. This cottage, which has been divided into two, was possibly originally a miller's house. It dates from the 17th century, with a later addition from the late 19th century. The structure is built of whitewashed stone rubble and features a slate roof with half-hipped and gabled ends. It has one storey and attics, and is set back from the road, forming an L-shape in plan.
The front of the building includes a gabled stair turret next to the doorway, along with a large stone chimney stack with set-offs that rises from the angle. To the left (west), there is a gabled cross-wing that was extended in the late 19th century. A 20th-century glazed porch fills the space between the wing and the stair turret. The cottage has a plank door and various 19th and 20th-century casement windows.
Local climate
Wisteria Cottage and Old Forge Cottage receives an average of 890 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 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Radon risk assessment
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