Cobwebs is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. Cottage.

Cobwebs

WRENN ID
rusted-newel-sienna
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dartmoor National Park
Constituency
Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
Country
England
Type
Cottage
Address
Cobwebs, the Square, Chagford, West Devon
OS grid reference
SX 700 876
Coordinates
50.67358, -3.84026
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Cobwebs is a cottage that dates from the 17th or 18th century and was altered and modernised around 1980. It is constructed from plastered granite stone rubble and features a disused granite stack, with a thatched roof and a slate roof on the rear extension. The cottage has a three-room plan and faces southeast, set back from The Square. The right room has an end stack, and there is a two-storey service extension at the rear. The entrance is now located at the left end behind a porch. The original layout has been significantly altered, and without an internal inspection, it is difficult to determine the original arrangement. It is possible that the right two rooms were the original cottage or that it was once two separate cottages.

The exterior has an irregular three-window front with 19th and 20th-century replacement casements that include glazing bars. The central ground floor window is believed to block a former doorway. At the left end, there is a porch featuring a Gothic-style door with an arched head, added around 1980. The porch roof is a monopitch that continues from the main roof, which is gable-ended on the right and half-hipped on the left. The rear extension has a gable-ended roof. The interior was not available for inspection at the time of the survey.

Local climate

Cobwebs receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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