The Pleasaunce is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 October 1988. House.
The Pleasaunce
- WRENN ID
- watchful-entrance-lark
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 October 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Pleasaunce, Bishop's Nympton
- OS grid reference
- SS 756 240
- Coordinates
- 51.00231, -3.77321
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Pleasaunce is a small house, likely originating from the 18th century, with internal modernisation completed in the late 20th century. It is constructed of whitewashed rendered cob and stone rubble, topped with a thatched roof that has gables at both ends and a stack on the right end. The building has a single depth plan, originally consisting of two rooms, with a heated kitchen/living room on the right and an unheated room on the left. There is a lean-to addition on the left end, which is probably from the 19th century. The partition between the two original rooms has been removed. The exterior features two storeys and an asymmetrical front with two windows, a central front door from the 20th century, and small timber casements with glazing bars that date from the 19th or 20th century. Inside, the house has a plain interior with an open fireplace at the right end, which includes a clay-lined bread oven.
Local climate
The Pleasaunce sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% 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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