Middle Villavin and Adjoining Front Garden Walls and Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 February 1989. Cottage.

Middle Villavin and Adjoining Front Garden Walls and Railings

WRENN ID
keen-roof-elder
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Torridge
Constituency
Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 February 1989
Type
Cottage
OS grid reference
SS 583 160
Coordinates
50.92663, -4.01712
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Middle Villavin is a cottage likely built in the late 17th century or early 18th century, with alterations from the mid to late 19th century and possibly early 20th century additions. The cottage is rendered, likely over cob, and features a thatched roof made of wheatstraw with brick stacks at each end. It has a two-room central-entrance layout with integral end stacks, facing southeast, and is two storeys high. There is probably an early 20th-century two-storey outshut at the rear.

The exterior is symmetrical with a two-window front, featuring 19th-century boxed 8-pane glazing bar sash windows, each consisting of four panes by one pane. The central doorway has a 19th-century four-panelled door and is topped by a late 19th-century or early 20th-century gabled wooden porch. The front garden is enclosed by stone walls on the sides and 19th-century cast-iron railings at the front, which include a central cast-iron gate. A close inspection of the house was not possible at the time of the survey in February 1988, and the interior was not inspected.

Local climate

Middle Villavin and Adjoining Front Garden Walls and Railings sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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