The Retreat is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1986. Small cottage. 1 related planning application.
The Retreat
- WRENN ID
- dim-oriel-hawk
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1986
- Type
- Small cottage
- Address
- The Retreat, Policemans Hill, Bishop's Tawton, EX32 0DJ
- OS grid reference
- SS 567 299
- Coordinates
- 51.05128, -4.04523
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Retreat is a small cottage dating from the 18th century, constructed of rendered cob with a hipped thatch roof and a brick stack on the left side. The cottage is almost square in plan and has two storeys. It features a 2-light casement window with two panes per light above a 19th-century 2-light casement window with eight panes per light. There is a lean-to porch with a tiled roof and a half-glazed door. The rear of the cottage has no outshuts.
Local climate
The Retreat 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 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2013
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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