Thornwood House is a Grade II listed building in the Teignbridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 November 1952. House.

Thornwood House

WRENN ID
crumbling-glass-crag
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Teignbridge
Constituency
Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 November 1952
Type
House
Address
Thornwood House, Church Hill, Tedburn St. Mary
OS grid reference
SX 811 945
Coordinates
50.73806, -3.68502
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Thornwood House is a house dating from around the mid-19th century, likely built of brick, with a stuccoed front elevation and rendered side elevations. It features a hipped slate roof with two gabled projections on the front and one on the left side, supported by shaped timber brackets. The house is designed in the Italianate villa style and has a deep plan that is only two rooms wide, with the two main rooms at the front flanking a recessed entrance leading to a central stair hall. The secondary rooms and services are located at the back.

The house is two storeys high with an asymmetrical three-bay front. The outer bays have gables designed as open pediments with blind bullseyes, and the right-hand bay is slightly advanced. The central bay is narrower and set back, featuring a porch with Ionic columns, an entablature, and a two-leaf half-glazed front door with margin glazing. The windows are predominantly three-light with semi-circular lights, except for the ground floor window on the left, which is a three-light with square heads, and the first-floor window above the porch, which is a two-light with semi-circular lights. There is a short gabled projection on the left side that matches the style of the front projections.

Inside, mid-19th century features remain, including chimney-pieces, shutters, and a staircase with stick balusters. Thornwood House is an attractive mid-19th century villa situated in a prominent location overlooking the road.

Local climate

Thornwood House receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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