Island House is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1967. House. 2 related planning applications.

Island House

WRENN ID
moated-cinder-russet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Devon
Constituency
North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 February 1967
Type
House
Address
Island House, Bishop's Nympton, EX36 4PQ
OS grid reference
SS 758 236
Coordinates
50.99913, -3.77054
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Island House is a house that originated in the 17th century or earlier, with later additions and remodeling. It features colourwashed rendered cob and stone rubble, topped with a thatched roof that has a plain ridge, gabled ends, and a half-hipped section over the two-storey porch. There is a modern brick shaft at the right end stack and two internal rear lateral stacks with brick shafts. The building has a single depth range, three rooms wide, with a two-storey porch approximately in the center and a workshop at the right end. The right end room, currently used as a pottery, seems to be an addition or a rebuilding, and a change in plane on the front elevation indicates that the left end has also been rebuilt at some point.

The exterior is two storeys high with an asymmetrical six-window front, featuring a half-glazed door from the late 19th or 20th century leading to the storeyed porch, and a separate entrance to the right that leads into the pottery. The timber windows date from the late 19th and 20th centuries and include glazing bars, with some being fixed and others casements. Inside, there is some exposed carpentry. The roof was not inspected at the time of the survey in 1987. Island House occupies a significant position in the village.

Local climate

Island 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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  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2021
  • Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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