Summerhall House, Summerhall Cottage and Honeysuckle Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 October 1988. House. 4 related planning applications.
Summerhall House, Summerhall Cottage and Honeysuckle Cottage
- WRENN ID
- empty-column-martin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 October 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Summerhall House, Summerhall Cottage and Honeysuckle Cottage, Littleham, EX39 5HG
- OS grid reference
- SS 454 237
- Coordinates
- 50.99253, -4.20304
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Summerhall House, along with Summerhall Cottage and Honeysuckle Cottage, is a house dating from around 1800, originally designed as a double-depth plan property and now divided into three dwellings. The exterior is colourwashed render over coursed slatestone rubble, with a hipped roof covered in concrete tiles and rendered end stacks. The house has a symmetrical three-window facade and originally comprised two storeys. A wooden Tuscan porch fronts a 19th-century panelled door, which features a decorative fanlight above. Flat, rendered arches top the 12-pane sash windows. There are early 19th-century six-panelled doors and horizontal-sliding sashes at the rear. Flanking the main house are two-storey bays added in the mid-19th century.
The interior of Summerhall House, at the central section, includes early 19th-century panelled shutters. The hall has a moulded plaster cornice and a round-arched doorway with moulded imposts leading to the rear, where a reset early 19th-century straight-flight staircase is found, complete with stick balusters and a moulded newel. A room to the right contains a decorative early 19th-century cornice featuring vine trails and acanthus leaf motifs. The kitchen at the rear left has an open fireplace with a clay oven.
Local climate
Summerhall House, Summerhall Cottage and Honeysuckle Cottage receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 2004
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- 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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