The Old Vicarage and Numbers 1 and 2 is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 October 1975. Residential house. 1 related planning application.
The Old Vicarage and Numbers 1 and 2
- WRENN ID
- burning-terrace-swift
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 October 1975
- Type
- Residential house
- Address
- The Old Vicarage and Numbers 1 and 2, Codden Hill, Bishop's Tawton, EX32 0AD
- OS grid reference
- SS 566 301
- Coordinates
- 51.05284, -4.04664
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Vicarage and Numbers 1 and 2 comprise three houses, originally a vicarage, built in 1841 by Hayward. The construction is colour-painted roughcast rendering, with slate roofs and yellow brick stacks. The building is L-shaped, featuring shaped Flemish gables – three to the north side, recessed on the left, three to the south side, two to the west end, and a single gable to the east. It extends over two storeys plus an attic storey and incorporates cellars. The right and left sides are slightly advanced, each with a shaped gable to the attic. Window openings are deep, housing wooden ovolo-moulded windows: the ground floor has four-light windows with transoms, the first floor has three-light windows, and the attics have two-light windows within the gables. The south side has lateral stacks positioned centrally on each end gable. A two-light window is located in the central gable, positioned above a three-light window of double sashes. The left-hand gable has a sash window with two panes over two, alongside a 20th-century casement. A four-centred arched doorway, framed by a moulded surround, leads to a half-glazed, panelled door of two leaves with an overlight, all within a 20th-century porch. Timber ovolo-mullion windows, including transomed three-light and two-light examples, flank a 20th-century plank door in the centre. The right side mirrors this with a four-centred arched door to the left of a lateral stack and a 20th-century casement to the right. Similar fenestration is present on the north and east elevations.
Inside, the principal rooms are adorned with egg and dart cornices. A dog-leg staircase features heavily turned balusters, turned newels with rose finials, and an overall ornate detailing.
Local climate
The Old Vicarage and Numbers 1 and 2 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 — 6 transactions since 1998
- 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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