Bampfylde House is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1989. House. 1 related planning application.
Bampfylde House
- WRENN ID
- stark-frieze-heath
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1989
- Type
- House
- Address
- Bampfylde House, Black Torrington, EX21 5PU
- OS grid reference
- SS 464 056
- Coordinates
- 50.82966, -4.18168
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bampfylde House is a house, originally built in the early 19th century and extended in the mid-to-late 19th century. It was formerly the rectory. The house has rendered walls and a hipped slate roof, with gables at the right-hand end of a wing. There are four brick stacks to the front range and wing, and two rendered stacks to the rear wings.
The main range is double-depth, with two rooms and a central stairhall. Service wings extend to the rear of the main range, and a Victorian addition projects from the right-hand end.
The original front facade, on the left, is symmetrical with three windows. It features 16-pane and 12-pane sash windows on the first floor; a sash window with missing glazing bars on the ground floor to the left; and a large Victorian bay window to the right. An original trellis porch is centrally located, with a round-arched doorway behind it, featuring panelled reveals and a six-panel door (now partially glazed). The Victorian wing to the right has a large two-storey bay window, and its gable end is hung with fishscale tiles.
The rear of the house includes wings to the left and right, with a small hipped roof over the original stair window, which has 16 panes. Single-story extensions are situated in front of each wing, and a connecting wall creates a rear courtyard.
The interior was inaccessible at the time of the survey, but it is likely to retain early 19th-century joinery.
Local climate
Bampfylde House 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 — 1 transaction since 2005
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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