Beach House is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 October 1986. House.
Beach House
- WRENN ID
- turning-tallow-ash
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 October 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Beach House, North Road, South Molton
- OS grid reference
- SS 711 262
- Coordinates
- 51.02083, -3.83815
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Beach House is a building dating from around 1840, originally serving as a Poor Law Workhouse. The central block is two storeys high and features a cement-rendered exterior with a slate roof. The gable above the central section has three sash windows, contributing to a total of seven sash windows throughout the building. The entrance is highlighted by a central pedimented doorcase flanked by pilasters. There are additional two and three storey ranges located behind the main block.
Local climate
Beach House 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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