Martin's Hill is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1986. House.

Martin's Hill

WRENN ID
narrow-corridor-torch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Devon
Constituency
North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 March 1986
Type
House
Address
Martin's Hill, Bishop's Tawton
OS grid reference
SS 572 290
Coordinates
51.04278, -4.03768
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Martin's Hill is a farmhouse that was originally two cottages, dating from the 16th or 17th century. The building is constructed of whitewashed rendered rubble and cob, topped with a thatch roof featuring a brick stack at the gable end. It likely started as a three-room structure with a through-passage plan, but the original layout has been obscured by later alterations that converted it into two cottages.

The farmhouse is two storeys high and has a three-window range of 19th-century casements with three lights on the left side. The rest of the windows are mainly scattered and consist of two-light casements. A 20th-century porch with a slated monopitch roof has been added. There is a casement window at the upper end that was inserted into a blocked doorway. At the rear, there is a two-light ovolo-moulded mullion, while the rest of that side is enclosed by a pantiled outshut.

Inside, there are stop-chamfered beams in two rooms at the upper end, as well as a fireplace lintel from the demolished stack. A single truss with heavy straight principals is present over the upper end, but there is no access to the roof space.

Local climate

Martin's Hill receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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