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
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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