The Courtyard and 2 Houses Adjoining at the Right is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 December 1987. Hotel, housing. 2 related planning applications.
The Courtyard and 2 Houses Adjoining at the Right
- WRENN ID
- haunted-moat-willow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Devon
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 December 1987
- Type
- Hotel, housing
- Address
- The Courtyard and 2 Houses Adjoining at the Right, EX16 9NE
- OS grid reference
- SS 957 222
- Coordinates
- 50.99049, -3.48705
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Courtyard and two adjoining houses are a hotel and residential buildings dating from the early 19th century, with some alterations made in the 20th century. They are constructed from stone rubble and topped with slate roofs, featuring end stacks on the main block in the center, a left end stack, and an axial stack on the left-hand block, as well as a right end stack on the right-hand block.
The layout includes a tall central block flanked by lower-roofed blocks, with a central carriage entrance. The exterior showcases a three-storey central block alongside two two-storey blocks, arranged in a 4:3:3 window front. The left-hand block has a front door positioned to the left of center, adorned with a rectangular fanlight and flanked by impressive granite columns topped with an entablature. Most of the glazing is modern plastic windows, but three first-floor left-hand windows retain their original embrasures, featuring segmental stone arches. The first-floor right-hand window is a reglazing of a late 19th or early 20th-century canted bay with a moulded cornice. The ground floor includes a window similar to the first-floor left-hand windows, along with two large modern windows with glazing bars to the right of the front door.
The central block is the most significant, standing three storeys tall with three irregularly spaced bays. It has a wide carriage entrance in the center, supported by Tuscan half-columns and an entablature featuring a pulvinated frieze and a moulded cornice. The second floor has timber sash windows with moulded cases, arranged in a 4 over 3-pane configuration, while the first floor features 12-pane sashes and a 16-pane sash on the ground floor right, with the ground floor left being reglazed with a 16-pane plastic sash. The right end block is two storeys high with three windows; the ground floor has 16-pane sashes on both sides and front doors situated between the windows. A wide segmental arch with a keystone spans the left-hand window and door, while the first floor has three modern timber two-light casements.
The interior has not been inspected but may contain interesting features. This building range forms one side of Newton Square.
Local climate
The Courtyard and 2 Houses Adjoining at the Right receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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 — 9 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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