Hearthstone and Hearthstone East Including Front Garden Wall and Gate Piers is a Grade II listed building in the Torbay local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 October 1949. Farmhouse.

Hearthstone and Hearthstone East Including Front Garden Wall and Gate Piers

WRENN ID
muffled-portal-laurel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Torbay
Constituency
South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 October 1949
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Hearthstone and Hearthstone East Including Front Garden Wall and Gate Piers, 40 and 42, Milton Street, Brixham
OS grid reference
SX 917 548
Coordinates
50.3837, -3.52366
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Hearthstone and Hearthstone East, including the front garden wall and gate piers, is a former farmhouse now divided into two private dwellings. It dates from the 17th century or earlier and is constructed of rendered stone rubble, possibly with some cob. The building has a thatched roof and features large stone rubble chimneys on the front wall and rear wing of Hearthstone, with two additional chimneys on the ridge and left end wall of Hearthstone East. The layout suggests it is a three-room-and-cross-passage house with a large addition at the lower left end and a rear wing to the right. The structure has two storeys and is five windows wide. Both houses have plank doors, likely from the 20th century, and feature two- and three-light wood casement windows, some with old hinges and diamond-shaped leaded panes. In front of the houses is a tall stone rubble wall with square gate piers at Hearthstone East. The entrance to Hearthstone is under a round stone rubble arch, probably from the 20th century. A 1975 listing notes that the property was completely but sympathetically restored in the 1930s.

Local climate

Hearthstone and Hearthstone East Including Front Garden Wall and Gate Piers receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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