St Rumon's Service Wing and Stable Yard is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1967. House.

St Rumon's Service Wing and Stable Yard

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
20 February 1967
Type
House
Address
St Rumon's Service Wing and Stable Yard, Romansleigh
OS grid reference
SS 726 205
Coordinates
50.97031, -3.81458
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

St Rumon's service wing and stable yard is a rectory, now a house, dated 1860. It is constructed of rubble, roughcast, and whitewashed, featuring wide eaves and a hipped bitumenised slate roof. The building has two very tall brick stacks with oversailing courses. The plan is L-shaped, with a square front range that includes a central staircase hall and flanking rooms, along with a large service wing at the rear of the left room.

The exterior is two storeys high with a symmetrical entrance front that has two windows. The ground floor features deep 8-pane sash windows with steps leading down into the garden. On the first floor, there is a 12-pane sash window to the left and a blank window opening to the right. The door opening is located at the extreme left within an angled projecting single-storey porch that has a flat roof. This porch has a semi-circular headed door opening in a raised surround, with paired 3-panelled doors and a fanlight. To the right face of the porch, there is another door opening, which is now blocked and has a 2-light casement with glazing bars inserted. A section of ramped down wall to the left leads to a stable yard that contains one and two-storey buildings, featuring sash windows with glazing bars and plank doors across three door openings.

The garden front on the right return maintains a similar style, with a semi-circular headed niche at the centre of the ground floor that has a later 3-light casement inserted. Above this is a large stairlight with a sash window, and on each side are datestones. The left datestone reads "God Save The Queen A.B. 1584 (sic)", while the right one states "God Save The Queen J.H.S. 1860".

Inside, the building features coeval joinery, including doors, door cases, a Jacobean-type staircase, and some minor panelling. There are three notable fireplaces on the ground floor: one in the drawing room with a marble chimneypiece and acanthus brackets on the mantle-shelf; another in the library designed in High Victorian Gothic style with a 4-centred arch head and rich leaf spandrels; and a kitchen fireplace with a fluted surround and roundels.

Local climate

St Rumon's Service Wing and Stable Yard 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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