The Hobbit is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 February 1990. Cottage.
The Hobbit
- WRENN ID
- turning-belfry-meadow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Hams
- Constituency
- South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 February 1990
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Hobbit, Malborough
- OS grid reference
- SX 707 397
- Coordinates
- 50.24363, -3.81397
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Hobbit is a cottage dating from the 18th century, with a probable addition from the 19th century. It features stone rubble walls that are mainly rendered and has a hipped thatch roof, with a gabled slate roof on the left-hand addition. The main range likely has a two-room plan, with one room and an entrance in the addition at the left-hand end. The cottage is oriented end on to the road and has three windows on its end wall: one on the first floor and two below, all of which are late 20th century PVC windows. The wing projecting from the left-hand end is recessed and includes a 19th-century panelled and glazed door with a window above. The interior was inaccessible at the time of the survey.
Local climate
The Hobbit 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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