Highfield Including Wall with 3 Bee Boles to Front Garden is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1973. House.
Highfield Including Wall with 3 Bee Boles to Front Garden
- WRENN ID
- rooted-spindle-yarrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1973
- Type
- House
- Address
- Highfield Including Wall with 3 Bee Boles to Front Garden, Ilfracombe
- OS grid reference
- SS 488 463
- Coordinates
- 51.1965, -4.16457
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Highfield is a house from the late 18th century that has been altered. It features a slate-hung rubble slate exterior and a synthetic slate roof. The building has a two-unit plan with an integral outshut at the rear, covered by a catslide roof. It is two storeys tall with an attic and has a regular three-window front. There are two dormers with sash windows, and the other windows are also sash with glazing bars. The entrance includes a six-panelled door with a hood supported by shaped brackets. Inside, there are some original features along with later fire-surrounds. In front of the house, there is a shillet wall that contains three simple bee-boles.
Local climate
Highfield Including Wall with 3 Bee Boles to Front Garden sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,150 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows 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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