Pound House and Walled Garden at Rear is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1967. Cottage. 1 related planning application.

Pound House and Walled Garden at Rear

WRENN ID
ragged-jade-ridge
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Devon
Constituency
North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 February 1967
Type
Cottage
Address
Pound House and Walled Garden at Rear, 5, the Square, Witheridge, EX16 8AE
OS grid reference
SS 803 144
Coordinates
50.91727, -3.70343
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Pound House and the walled garden at the rear are a cottage from the 18th century located on the south side of The Square in Witheridge. The building is rendered, likely over a rubble core, and features a hipped thatched roof with a central stack that has a 19th-century brick shaft, along with a slated lean-to at the rear. The cottage has a layout of two large rooms with a central axial stack, and the staircase runs along the side of the stack; partitions were removed in the 20th century.

The exterior is two storeys high with a symmetrical arrangement of windows, featuring 2:2 openings. It has 19th-century casements with horizontal glazing bars. The door is off-centre to the right and is a 20th-century half-glazed door. On the ground floor, there are two 2-light 19th-century casements with horizontal glazing bars facing The Square, and a 5-light dormer with a thatched bonnet-hood is present on the first floor.

The interior has undergone significant alterations. The roof on the right side has straight principals and appears to be from the 18th century. The walled rear garden features cob walling, some of which has slate capping, along with rubble walling and areas of whitewash.

Local climate

Pound House and Walled Garden at Rear receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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