Old Walls is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 February 1990. House.
Old Walls
- WRENN ID
- kindled-kitchen-dew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Hams
- Constituency
- South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 February 1990
- Type
- House
- Address
- Old Walls, Combe, Malborough
- OS grid reference
- SX 717 383
- Coordinates
- 50.23116, -3.79889
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Walls is a house that dates from the late 17th century or 18th century and has been significantly altered in the 20th century. It features plastered rubble walls and a thatched roof, which is hipped at the left end and half-hipped at the right. There are two rendered, likely rubble, axial stacks. The layout has been considerably changed in the 20th century, but it originally consisted of two rooms with a wide passage or smaller room in between, where the fireplaces were located. The large room on the right may have originally been two separate rooms.
The exterior is two storeys high with an asymmetrical front that has four windows. These are 20th-century two-light casements set in smaller earlier openings. To the right of the centre, there is a 20th-century French window, and to the left of the centre, there is a part-glazed door beneath a thatch hood. Although the interior has been altered and lacks early features, the house still maintains a traditional appearance from the outside despite the changes it has undergone.
Local climate
Old Walls sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 1 freeze-thaw cycle a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows 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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