Clovelly Cross Filling Station is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1989. Filling station.
Clovelly Cross Filling Station
- WRENN ID
- ruined-spindle-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1989
- Type
- Filling station
- OS grid reference
- SS 313 233
- Coordinates
- 50.98447, -4.40459
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Clovelly Cross Filling Station is a petrol filling station and station attendants house built in 1930 by architects Orphoot and Whiting of Bideford for Christine Hamlyn. The building features brick walls that are roughcast and whitewashed, with hipped and gabled slate roofs. The layout consists of two halves: on the right is the petrol filling area with a covered filling area resembling a port-cochere, along with service rooms and a shop at the rear; on the left is the station attendants house, all designed in a loose Italianate style and described as "a model of its kind."
The exterior includes a covered filling area with a hipped roof that has a bellcast design. At the front, there are two narrow semi-circular headed archways flanking a broad central square-headed opening, which is emphasized by imposts. Originally, petrol pumps stood beneath these arches, but they have since been replaced by late 20th-century models. There are broad square-headed openings on each return for vehicle access. The rear features the shop and cash-register area, which has a large replaced wood shop front, along with flanking service rooms that have hipped roofs. To the left, there is a plank door leading to an oil stove, and to the right are lavatories.
Attached to the right is the attendants house, which is a single storey with an attic. It has two coped verges at the gables with rendered stacks at their apexes, and a small gabled central dormer with a 2-light 12-pane metal casement. The ground floor has two window openings with altered late 20th-century 3-light casements flanking a central door opening in a projecting porch with incurving side walls. An inserted altered late 20th-century outer door opening features small original corbels at eaves level. There is a short section of wall on each side of the house, ramping down to end piers topped with ball caps. To the right is a semi-circular head throughway, and to the left is an inserted 2-light semi-circular head casement. At the rear, there is a lean-to that was formerly thought to be an ornamental verandah. The interior has not been seen.
Local climate
Clovelly Cross Filling Station sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 6 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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