Durrant Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 June 1951. Hotel. 3 related planning applications.
Durrant Hotel
- WRENN ID
- hidden-chamber-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 June 1951
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- Durrant Hotel, Heywood Road, Northam, EX39 3QB
- OS grid reference
- SS 450 283
- Coordinates
- 51.03385, -4.21169
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Durrant Hotel is a building from the 18th century or early 19th century that has been altered over time. It is said that there was an ancient mansion on this site, but no remains are visible today. A two-storey wing made of cob may be older than the rest of the building. The property was purchased by Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Goodwin Keats in 1810, who is believed to have made improvements to it.
The main front of the hotel features two storeys with five windows, covered in stucco, and includes a cornice and parapet. The sash windows have glazing bars. A central Greek mutular Doric porch with fluted columns and triglyphs, likely added around 1810, enhances the façade. Inside, there is a fine late 18th-century staircase in a semi-circular well, complete with a wrought iron balustrade and a Venetian window with an ogee-headed arch, flanked by fluted columns. The vaulted staircase hall showcases fluted pilasters and plasterwork from a similar period. There is also a modern hotel addition to the west of the original structure.
Local climate
Durrant Hotel 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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