The Rock and Attached Terrace Railings is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 December 1973. House. 3 related planning applications.

The Rock and Attached Terrace Railings

WRENN ID
young-truss-shade
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Devon
Constituency
North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
31 December 1973
Type
House
Address
The Rock and Attached Terrace Railings, 49 and 49a, Pilton Street, Barnstaple
OS grid reference
SS 557 341
Coordinates
51.08844, -4.06109
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a late 19th-century house, likely a remodelling of an earlier building, situated on Pilton Street in Barnstaple. It was originally a single house but has since been divided into two separate units, numbered 49 and 49A. The exterior is roughcast, with a natural slate roof. It features a rear right lateral stack, a stack at the right end, and an axial stack to the left of the centre, all with brick shafts. The house has a single-depth design. The right-hand unit (No.49) has a central front entrance, while the left-hand unit is one room wide. The house sits elevated above the street.

The facade has two storeys and an asymmetrical but regularly glazed four-window arrangement. There are recessed front doors in the left-hand bay and the second bay from the left. The windows are horned sashes with two on the ground floor and four on the first floor. The interior has not been inspected, but potentially retains features of interest, and further inspection may refine the dating. Cast-iron terrace railings, dating to the 1860s and of decorative design, are included as subsidiary features.

Local climate

The Rock and Attached Terrace Railings 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 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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  • Sale history — 5 transactions since 1997
  • Related listed building consents — 3 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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