North Beacon and South Beacon is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 November 1985. House. 1 related planning application.

North Beacon and South Beacon

WRENN ID
patient-beam-thunder
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Devon
Constituency
Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 November 1985
Type
House
Address
North Beacon and South Beacon, Stretch Down, Thelbridge, EX16 8PD
OS grid reference
SS 810 134
Coordinates
50.90808, -3.69387
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

North Beacon and South Beacon are two cottages, likely built in the 18th century, with later 19th-century and a circa 1984 extension. They are constructed of plastered cob on rubble footings, with plastered rubble and concrete blockwork extensions. The cottages feature a rubble stack topped with 19th-century brick and a thatched roof, with slate on the extensions.

Originally, these were a pair of semi-detached cottages with a one-room plan, facing southwest. They share a front lobby entrance and have a stack in the party wall that serves back-to-back fireplaces. North Beacon is on the left (northwest) and has a late 19th-century store adjoining its left end, while South Beacon is on the right and has a circa 1984 extension.

The cottages are two stories high, with what was once a symmetrical four-window front featuring late 19th-century to early 20th-century casements with glazing bars. There is a central doorway, which is an unusual 19th-century door with three upright panels and a fourth glazed panel across the top, likely part of a late 19th-century gabled and slate-roofed porch. The door is now exclusive to North Beacon, while a new doorway was added to the outer side of South Beacon around 1984, and another ground floor window was replaced. The main roof is half-hipped on each side.

The single-storey extension to North Beacon includes a 20th-century iron-framed window and a Victorian post box. South Beacon features a two-storey extension built around 1984 with two windows. Inside, both original rooms have rubble fireplaces with plain oak lintels and brick ovens at the rear. The roofs were not inspected.

Local climate

North Beacon and South Beacon receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 3 transactions since 1997
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • 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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