The Boat House is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 April 1987. Boathouse.
The Boat House
- WRENN ID
- waning-granite-hemlock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 April 1987
- Type
- Boathouse
- Address
- The Boat House, Berrynarbor
- OS grid reference
- SS 555 481
- Coordinates
- 51.21408, -4.06993
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Boat House is a mid-19th century boathouse located at Watermouth Cove in Berrynarbor. It is constructed from unrendered stone rubble with painted brick dressings and features a concrete tiled roof adorned with decorative carved gable-end bargeboards. The boxed eaves are supported by shaped timber brackets. At the rear right-hand corner, there is a diagonally set brick stack with oversailing courses and four bands of zig-zag coursing. The building is rectangular in shape and is oriented gable end towards the seafront, with a wide entrance at the front gable end.
This single-storey boathouse includes a sail loft above. The front gable end has a small window with a cambered arch above a segmental pointed arched entrance that features double sliding plank doors. There are two cambered arched window openings on each side, each with 8-paned top-hung casements. At the rear gable end, there are double plank doors leading to the sail loft. Inside, the boathouse retains its parquet flooring, winding gear, and a brick fireplace surround.
Local climate
The Boat House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,150 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows 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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