Harracott House is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1987. Private dwelling.
Harracott House
- WRENN ID
- drifting-pediment-cobweb
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1987
- Type
- Private dwelling
- Address
- Harracott House, Tawstock
- OS grid reference
- SS 562 264
- Coordinates
- 51.01924, -4.0513
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Harracott House is a former parsonage to Hiscott Church, now a private dwelling, built around 1840. The house is constructed from rendered stone rubble and features a hipped slate roof with sprocketted eaves and brick stacks on each side. It has a double fronted central hall and staircase plan, with two rooms deep and two service wings to each side at the rear, creating an overall U-shaped layout over two storeys. The façade is symmetrical with three bays and includes quoin pilasters. The windows are 16 paned hornless sashes above French doors that flank a Tuscan porch with a six-panelled door. The internal joinery is largely intact, showcasing a geometrical staircase with a wreathed handrail, stick balusters, and a moulded string, although the fireplaces have been altered.
Local climate
Harracott House 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 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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