Gidley House (Marked on O S Map As Gidley Arms Inn) is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 October 1987. House.

Gidley House (Marked on O S Map As Gidley Arms Inn)

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Devon
Constituency
North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 October 1987
Type
House
Address
Gidley House (Marked on O S Map As Gidley Arms Inn), Meshaw
OS grid reference
SS 771 180
Coordinates
50.94904, -3.75084
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Gidley House, originally known as Gidley Arms Inn, is a house that was later used as an inn and has now reverted to being a house. It features a beam in the roof dated "1826" and has undergone some internal refitting in the 20th century, along with a large 20th-century addition at the rear. The exterior is constructed from coursed and squared local rubble, arranged in alternating thick and thin bands, with deep eaves, a hipped slate roof, lead ridges, and very large end roughcast stacks.

The house has a symmetrical two-storey design with three bays. It includes 16-pane sash windows, which are large on the ground floor and slightly smaller on the first floor, with rubble voussoirs above the flat-arch heads. The central entrance features paired 20th-century glazed doors that match the style of the house. The left side of the building has two 2-light wooden mullioned-and-transomed windows.

Inside, despite some refitting, the house retains much of its original joinery, including doors, architraves, and a dog-leg staircase with stick balusters, a moulded handrail, and a turned newel at the bottom. The drawing room and hall display simple Regency plasterwork, cornices, and ceiling centres.

Local climate

Gidley House (Marked on O S Map As Gidley Arms Inn) receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% 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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