Little Hele is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 October 1988. House.

Little Hele

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Devon
Constituency
North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 October 1988
Type
House
Address
Little Hele, George Nympton
OS grid reference
SS 729 240
Coordinates
51.00214, -3.81227
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Little Hele is a house dating from the 1840s, with a likely late 19th-century remodelling at the rear and 20th-century alterations. The building is roughcast, featuring a main range with end stacks and a slate roof, gabled at both ends, designed in the Gothick style. The layout consists of a single depth, two-room main block with a central entrance and a long rear wing that is at right angles to the main block, partly converted from stabling and subdivided.

The exterior showcases a symmetrical three-bay Gothick front elevation with three gables adorned with elaborate bargeboards, splat pendants, and finials at each apex. There is a central gabled porch that has similar bargeboards and a likely 19th-century two-leaf outer door with two-centred arched lights beneath a Gothick fanlight featuring Y glazing bars. Inside, there is a 19th-century panelled inner door with a Gothick fanlight. The front elevation includes three first-floor and two ground-floor two-centred arched Gothick windows, probably from the 19th century, also with Y glazing bars in the heads. The rear wing has pigeon holes under the eaves. The striking front elevation is visible from the road.

Local climate

Little Hele sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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