Pound House and Adjoining House to the West is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 February 1977. Pair of houses. 2 related planning applications.

Pound House and Adjoining House to the West

WRENN ID
dreaming-merlon-elder
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Torridge
Constituency
Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 February 1977
Type
Pair of houses
Address
Pound House and Adjoining House to the West, EX21 5NE
OS grid reference
SS 486 063
Coordinates
50.83663, -4.15119
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Pound House and the adjoining house to the west are a pair of houses located in Sheepwash, dating from the early 19th century. The adjoining house may be older but was likely heavily remodeled around the mid-19th century. The buildings feature rendered rubble walls, possibly with some cob, and have slate roofs, with Pound House having a hipped roof and the adjoining house a gabled roof. Each house has a brick stack at its right-hand end.

Both houses are two storeys high and have a two-room plan with a central entry. Pound House likely contains smaller service rooms at the rear. The left-hand house has a symmetrical two-window front with 19th-century two-light small-paned casements. It also features a contemporary gabled porch with cusped bargeboards, decorative ridge tiles, and a round-arched doorway with a 19th-century four-panel door behind it. There is a late 19th-century or early 20th-century lean-to against the left-hand end.

Pound House, on the right, projects slightly and has a symmetrical two-window front with 12-pane sashes—early 19th-century on the first floor and later 19th-century below. There is a 20th-century lean-to glazed porch at the centre with a 20th-century panelled door. The interiors were inaccessible during the survey but may still contain 19th-century joinery.

Local climate

Pound House and Adjoining House to the West sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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  • Sale history — 4 transactions since 1999
  • Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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