Driftwood is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 February 1990. House. 1 related planning application.
Driftwood
- WRENN ID
- eternal-rubblework-sage
- 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
- Driftwood, Malborough, TQ7 3RW
- OS grid reference
- SX 708 398
- Coordinates
- 50.24425, -3.81313
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Driftwood is a house dating to around the late 17th century. It has walls of rendered stone rubble and a hipped thatched roof. A brick rear stack, positioned axially with the adjacent property, is also present. The house is set end-on to the road, with a likely 2 or 3-room plan and a single depth. The main entrance is at the rear, within the right-hand end room. The front facade is asymmetrical, featuring a two-window arrangement with 20th-century 2 and 3-light casement windows. A 19th-century four-panel door is located in the rear wall, sheltered by an open-fronted porch. The interior was inaccessible during the survey.
Local climate
Driftwood 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1999
- 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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