Kingscott House is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 February 1989. House.
Kingscott House
- WRENN ID
- stony-spindle-heron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 February 1989
- Type
- House
- Address
- Kingscott House, St. Giles in the Wood
- OS grid reference
- SS 536 180
- Coordinates
- 50.94288, -4.08432
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Kingscott House is a house built in the early to mid-19th century, with a late 19th-century service extension. It is constructed from plastered stone rubble, featuring stone rubble or brick stacks with plastered chimney shafts, and has a thatched roof with a slate roof on the rear block. The house has a double depth plan and faces northeast, consisting of a front and back room with an axial stack between them, situated on either side of a central entrance hall and main stair. The rear service block projects at a right angle from the back of the right end.
The main house is two storeys tall with attics, while the single-storey extension is on the left end. The exterior of the main block is symmetrical with a three-window front surrounding a central front doorway, which has a 19th-century six-pane door behind a late 19th-century thatch-roofed gabled porch featuring cusped bargeboards. On either side of the doorway are late 19th-century canted bay windows with four-pane sashes. The first-floor outer windows are blind, while the center window has a 16-pane sash. The tall roof is half-hipped at both ends, and the end walls have two-window fronts of 16-pane sashes and arch-headed dormers with Y-tracery. The late 19th-century single-storey extension on the left end has a flat roof and contains lancet windows. The service block features unusual six-pane sashes with only vertical glazing bars. The interior was not available for inspection at the time of this survey.
Local climate
Kingscott House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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