Cottage Approximately 1 Metre East of Court Place Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Exmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 April 1987. Cottage.

Cottage Approximately 1 Metre East of Court Place Farmhouse

WRENN ID
silver-beam-quill
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Exmoor National Park
Constituency
North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 April 1987
Type
Cottage
OS grid reference
SS 674 448
Coordinates
51.18758, -3.89827
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This cottage, located approximately 1 metre east of Court Place Farmhouse in Parracombe, is probably from the late 17th century and has seen alterations in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is constructed of stone rubble and faced with corrugated iron, topped with a corrugated asbestos roof featuring gable ends. A tall stone rubble stack with a tapering cap is situated at the right gable end, while a rear lateral stone rubble stack heats the left-hand room, which is enclosed by a rear dairy outshut.

The cottage has a two-room and cross-passage layout, with a wide passage that includes a straight-run staircase on the right side. The left side is partitioned to create a narrow unheated central room that has a rear doorway leading to the dairy outshut, likely added in the late 18th century. It stands two storeys high and has a three-window range with early 20th-century fenestration. All windows are two-light casements, with four panes per light on the upper storey and six panes per light on the ground floor, flanking a wide 20th-century lean-to porch.

Inside, the right-hand room features a chamfered axial ceiling beam, and a 19th-century fireplace lintel conceals the original one. There is a roughly chamfered door surround to the rear passage doorway, and the dairy outshut has a lime ash floor. The left-hand room has been altered in the 20th century, but the original fireplace likely still exists. The joinery and staircase upstairs have remained unaltered since the 19th century.

Local climate

Cottage Approximately 1 Metre East of Court Place Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,170 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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