Black Horse Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1951. A C17 Hotel.
Black Horse Hotel
- WRENN ID
- under-nave-lark
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 March 1951
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- Black Horse Hotel, High Street, Great Torrington, EX38 8HN
- OS grid reference
- SS 495 191
- Coordinates
- 50.95171, -4.14338
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Black Horse Hotel, located on the west side of High Street, dates back to 1735. It features a two-gabled front that has undergone significant restoration. The lower storey is refaced with rustic brickwork, and oak-mullion bays have been added. The oversailing upper floors are roughcast and have modern or extensively restored slightly canted mullion transom windows. The building has new barge boards, an eaves cornice, and a new slate roof. One doorway retains a genuine heavily moulded frame, with curved braces supporting the first-floor overhang. The ancient door adds to its character. The front entry is bordered by cobbled margins, and to the right, there is a stud and plank panelled partition. Inside, the front room features a plaster panel above the fireplace inscribed with "TD SD 1681" and hewn chamfer beams. All the listed buildings on High Street are part of a group.
Local climate
Black Horse Hotel receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% 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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