Pixies is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 March 1988. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Pixies
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-chancel-reed
- 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
- Pixies, Drewsteignton, West Devon, TQ13 8JX
- OS grid reference
- SX 698 902
- Coordinates
- 50.69746, -3.84458
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pixies is a cottage dating from the mid to late 19th century, with extensions added around 1970. It is constructed of plastered granite stone rubble, with a stone rubble stack and a plastered brick chimneyshaft, and has a thatched roof. The original plan was that of a 2-room cottage in the cottage ornée style, facing southwest, with a stack on the right gable end and the main entrance in the left end wall. Later additions include a 20th-century conservatory on the right end and a 2-storey service extension to the rear. The main cottage is two storeys high and has a symmetrical 3-window front. The windows have pointed arch heads, containing original casements with glazing bars and glazed arch heads. A 20th-century slate-roofed porch shelters the left-end doorway. The roof is gable-ended on the right and half-hipped to the left. The conservatory extension incorporates a secondary doorway and a large full-height window, and has a steeply pitched, hipped roof. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Pixies 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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