Gorwell House is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 December 1973. A Georgian House. 3 related planning applications.
Gorwell House
- WRENN ID
- shifting-brick-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 December 1973
- Type
- House
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- Gorwell House, Goodleigh Road, Barnstaple, EX32 7JP
- OS grid reference
- SS 572 334
- Coordinates
- 51.08293, -4.03911
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gorwell House is a house dating to around 1825, built for the owner of the Derby Lace Works. It is constructed of stuccoed mass wall construction, with a natural slate roof hidden behind a parapet, and rendered stacks. The building has an L-shaped layout, comprising a main block and a rear service wing, partially in separate ownership.
The main block is symmetrical, with a five-bay front. Above a deeply-moulded cornice rises a parapet. The ground floor has four French windows with glazing bars, margin panes, and external sliding louvred shutters. First-floor windows are two-pane sashes with margin panes, and evidence of missing shutters. A seven-bay Bathstone Ionic loggia with an entablature, moulded cornice, and paired columns extends from the front, returning for four bays at either end to the central doorway. The doorcase has paired pilasters and a two-leaf front door with glazing bars and margin panes. The left return side of the house retains some likely original 12-pane sash windows.
The interior is very well preserved, retaining original joinery, a turned baluster staircase, and good plaster friezes and cornices, along with original chimney pieces. The first floor is said to have Gothic plaster vaulting.
Local climate
Gorwell House 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 8 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- 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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