The Three Pigeons is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 February 1965. Public house. 7 related planning applications.

The Three Pigeons

WRENN ID
hallowed-niche-aspen
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Devon
Constituency
North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 February 1965
Type
Public house
Address
The Three Pigeons, Bishop's Tawton, EX32 0DG
OS grid reference
SS 567 299
Coordinates
51.05122, -4.04562
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Three Pigeons is a public house that dates back to the 17th century, with alterations made in the 18th and 19th centuries. It is constructed of rendered stone and cob, topped with a slate roof featuring brick stacks at each end and a ridge stack. The building is two stories high and has a four-window range, with 19th to 20th-century two-light casements. The left side has two windows with six panes per light, while the window above the doorway has nine panes per light, and the right end features a window with six small panes per light. There is a shallow Tuscan porch at the off-centre doorway, which contains a plank door with cover strips. To the left of the doorway, there is another entrance leading to a two-light casement with twelve panes per light. At the rear, there is a large canted bay window with a hipped slate roof, which has nine-paned sidelights and a central light with twenty-four panes. Inside, there is a single 17th-century roughly hewn truss with threaded purlins that is partly intact, while the rest of the roof structure was completely replaced in the 20th century.

Local climate

The Three Pigeons sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 2013
  • Related listed building consents — 7 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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