Cannington House and Forecourt Area Railings with Walling is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1967. House. 3 related planning applications.

Cannington House and Forecourt Area Railings with Walling

WRENN ID
weathered-groin-fern
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
Cannington House and Forecourt Area Railings with Walling, 9 and 11, West Street, Witheridge, EX16 8AA
OS grid reference
SS 804 144
Coordinates
50.91709, -3.70268
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Cannington House, now divided into two residences, is a house dating from the late 18th century. It features a roughcast stone rubble core, a large hipped slate roof, and brick stacks. The building has a long single room depth plan and is designed in a late Georgian style. It stands two storeys tall with an almost symmetrical arrangement of windows, including 12-pane sash windows with exposed sash boxes, except for a larger sash window on the right side of the ground floor that has additional marginal glazing bars. The central door opening is framed by a doorcase with an open triangular pediment, leading to a 6-panelled door with a fanlight that has glazing bars. There is also a secondary door opening to the left with a half-glazed door.

Inside, although access was limited, the hall contains a late 18th-century staircase featuring a moulded mahogany handrail, stick balusters, and tread brackets. Adjacent to the staircase are two cast-iron ornamental columns that support the first floor. The roof was not visible. The forecourt is enclosed by simple early or mid 19th-century railings with gates that match the style, along with rubble end piers and a rubble return wall.

Local climate

Cannington House and Forecourt Area Railings with Walling receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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