The Old Rectory Cottage Including Boundary Wall Adjoining to East is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. Cottage.

The Old Rectory Cottage Including Boundary Wall Adjoining to East

WRENN ID
dim-jamb-rook
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dartmoor National Park
Constituency
Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
Country
England
Type
Cottage
OS grid reference
SX 667 907
Coordinates
50.70118, -3.88758
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Rectory Cottage, likely built in the 18th century, was renovated around 1980. It is constructed from granite stone rubble, with a granite stack and a thatched roof, while the outshot has a tiled roof. The cottage features a two-room plan and faces west, although its left end wall is more prominent from the village center. An axial stack between the two rooms serves the larger left room. The building is two storeys high and has 20th-century service outshots at the rear.

The exterior includes a recessed doorway at the right end of the front, which has a 19th-century plank door with a side light. To the left, there is a 20th-century casement window with glazing bars, and another similar window above in a late 19th-century gabled half dormer with a tiled roof. The roof is hipped. The left end features a 16-pane sash window to the right of a blocked doorway, along with another casement window with glazing bars above.

Inside, the cottage has plain carpentry details that are exposed, along with a rebuilt granite ashlar fireplace. The roof space was not inspected, but the bases of roughly-finished A-frame truss principals are visible on the first floor. Extending east from the left end wall is a high granite rubble wall that shields the 20th-century rear outshots and garden from the village. This cottage is part of a group with other listed buildings that contribute to the attractive center of Throwleigh village.

Local climate

The Old Rectory Cottage Including Boundary Wall Adjoining to East 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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