Peonies is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 October 1988. A Georgian Cottage.
Peonies
- WRENN ID
- iron-tallow-vale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 October 1988
- Type
- Cottage
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- Peonies, King's Nympton
- OS grid reference
- SS 682 195
- Coordinates
- 50.95991, -3.87775
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Peonies is a cottage, likely built in the early 19th century. It features roughcast rendered stone rubble and cob, with a thatched roof and gable ends. There is a stone rubble stack at the left end of the building.
The cottage has a two-storey structure with a two-window range. The windows on the upper floor are 19th-century two-light casements, each with six panes per light. The ground floor has 20th-century windows and a 20th-century porch that has a gabled slate roof.
The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Peonies receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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 2019
- No related consent applications matched
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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