Number 1 and House Adjoining on Right with Attached Walls and Railings is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 January 1951. House.

Number 1 and House Adjoining on Right with Attached Walls and Railings

WRENN ID
vacant-lantern-dust
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Devon
Constituency
North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 January 1951
Type
House
OS grid reference
SS 559 329
Coordinates
51.07765, -4.05762
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

A pair of houses of one build, now offices and flats, were constructed around 1800. The buildings are of solid rendered walls with slated roofs and red brick and rendered chimneys.

Number 1 is double-fronted and double-depth, with a central entrance passage leading to a staircase at the rear. The upper floor comprises three rooms, suggesting the original layout. The house to the right is likely similar, with an original or near-original rear wing. A passage exists between the two houses, with a room above, currently belonging to the right-hand house.

The houses are two storeys high, with a garret likely added later to the right-hand house. Each house has a three-window range, with the house to the right incorporating an additional window above the central passage. The centre doorways are round-arched, framed by Doric columns supporting sections of triglyph frieze, topped with open triangular pediments featuring modillions. The doors are eight-panelled, with a central bead-moulding, and the right-hand house has a cobweb fanlight. Windows are mostly 8-paned sashes, with the lower ground floor sashes having 12 panes. Giant pilasters flank each end of the pair, and a raised band delineates the storeys. A moulded top cornice and blocking-course projects over the pilasters. The central passage contains a plain round-arched opening. The rear elevation features barred sashes, including a round-arched stair window. The right-hand house has brackets supporting the gutters, potentially remnants of an original eaves cornice.

The interior of Number 1 was inspected and reveals ground-floor rooms with six-panelled doors. The two right-hand rooms are well-preserved, boasting dados with moulded rails and skirting, boxed cornices, a grey marble chimneypiece at the front, a similar wooden one at the rear, and panelled shutters. The left-hand front room has a grey marble chimneypiece. A geometric wooden staircase features voluted feet and shaped step ends, with two thin square wood balusters and three horizontal bars between them. The upper-floor landing features a groin-vaulted ceiling springing from four pilasters. Doors are four-panelled with raised mouldings. Original moulded wooden chimneypieces are present in the front and rear left-hand rooms, while the right-hand front room has a stone chimneypiece with a bracketed shelf.

At the front, the houses have small raised gardens with rendered retaining walls, and some iron railings remain, with lily finials adorning the standards at the right-hand house. These represent a well-preserved example of early 19th-century houses.

Local climate

Number 1 and House Adjoining on Right with Attached Walls and Railings 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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