Smallack House is a Grade II listed building in the Plymouth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 February 1998. Farmhouse.

Smallack House

WRENN ID
veiled-rubblework-hazel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Plymouth
Constituency
Plymouth Moor View MP: Fred Thomas (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 February 1998
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Smallack House, 42, Smallack Drive, City of Plymouth
OS grid reference
SX 490 588
Coordinates
50.41014, -4.12585
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Smallack House is a farmhouse that was later converted into a small country house, dating from the 18th century, with some front alterations made in the 19th century. The front is finished with slate hanging, while the rest of the building is rendered. It has a dry slate roof featuring two old hipped dormers with slate-hung cheeks and rendered end stacks. The house has a double-depth plan and stands two storeys plus an attic, with a symmetrical three-window front and a later service wing on the left.

The windows include paired sashes over 19th-century canted bays, along with a central 12-pane sash above the doorway, which has a four-panel door that is later top-glazed. The first-floor right window features late 18th-century hornless sashes with some crown glass, while the others are later horned copies. There is a distyle Tuscan porch with a moulded entablature. The fanlight above the round-arched opening to the left wing is a copy of a feature that may have been moved from the stair window opening at the rear.

Inside, the house has 18th-century moulded plaster ceiling cornices in the principal ground-floor rooms, an 18th-century dog-leg staircase with a later balustrade, and some early 19th-century features, including panelled doors with beaded panels and similar detailing on the soffits over the windows.

Local climate

Smallack House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% 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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