The Hive is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 June 1975. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
The Hive
- WRENN ID
- hushed-mullion-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 June 1975
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Hive, Rock Hill, Georgeham, EX33 1JN
- OS grid reference
- SS 465 399
- Coordinates
- 51.13789, -4.19486
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Hive is a small cottage located on Rock Hill in Georgeham. It is constructed of whitewashed rendered rubble and cob, topped with a thatch roof that is half-hipped at the left end. There is an outshut at the rear with a slated roof, and the right gable end also features a scantling slate roof. A stack is positioned at the right gable end. The cottage has a single cell plan and stands two storeys high. The front facade has a two-window range of two-light casements, with two panes in each light, above another two-light casement with three panes per light, positioned to the right of an angled porch that has a 20th-century roof. On the left end, there are single 19th-century two-light casements, each with six panes per light, on both floors.
Local climate
The Hive sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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