May House is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 August 1988. House. 2 related planning applications.
May House
- WRENN ID
- tall-plaster-tide
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 August 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- May House, 124, Boutport Street, Barnstaple, EX31 1TD
- OS grid reference
- SS 557 335
- Coordinates
- 51.08283, -4.06072
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
May House is a former Baptist Minister's house located on Boutport Street, Barnstaple, and dates from 1870. It was designed by RD Gould. The walls appear to be of a soft stone, possibly refaced in cement, with limestone dressings and a granite plinth. The roof is slate, featuring crested ridge tiles, and a stone chimney is present on the left gable.
The house is three stories high, with a garret, and originally had a two-window front. A pointed arch doorway, springing from pilasters with richly carved capitals, is positioned to the right of the ground floor. This doorway is set within a slight projection, which extends upwards as a short buttress with a shaped top on its left end. A transomed window above the doorway on the second floor has a flat molded stone lintel, and is surmounted by a panel of patterned brickwork enclosed within a pointed, molded arch. A plain canted bay window is situated to the left of the ground and second floors; the ground-floor lights have shouldered heads, while those above have segmental heads. The third floor contains two windows with shouldered heads. A bracketed eaves cornice runs along the top. A hipped dormer window is centrally placed in the roof. The Baptist Chapel and Church Hall are adjacent to the west.
Local climate
May 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 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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 — 2 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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