The Square is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1988. Cottage.
The Square
- WRENN ID
- night-string-grove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1988
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Square, 1 and 2, Petrockstow, EX20 3HN
- OS grid reference
- SS 513 091
- Coordinates
- 50.86244, -4.11325
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Square is a cottage located in Petrockstowe, dating from the mid to late 17th century, with a 19th-century addition. It features rendered cob and rubble walls and has a hipped thatch roof. The axial stack is likely made of rendered brick. The current layout consists of two rooms: a smaller room on the left with an entrance in its end wall, and a larger room on the right that is heated by an axial fireplace. A 19th-century lean-to has been added at the rear. The exterior is two storeys high with an asymmetrical front that has two windows on the upper floor and four late 20th-century single pane casement windows on the ground floor. There is a 20th-century glazed door located in the left-hand end wall, which is sheltered by a 19th-century gabled porch. The interior was inaccessible at the time of the survey.
Local climate
The Square 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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