Town Tenement is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 February 1989. Cottage.
Town Tenement
- WRENN ID
- seventh-jamb-lark
- 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
- Address
- Town Tenement, 3, Roborough
- OS grid reference
- SS 576 170
- Coordinates
- 50.93542, -4.02714
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 3, Town Tenement is a cottage and adjoining former outbuilding located in Roborough. The cottage dates from the late 17th century or early 18th century, while the outbuilding is likely from the 19th century. The cottage is built of rendered stone and features a gable-ended wheatstraw thatched roof, with a rendered end stack that has a red brick shaft. The adjoining outbuilding, which was originally weatherboarded, is made of rendered stone and cob, topped with a gable-ended Welsh-slate roof.
The cottage has a one-room plan and faces east, with the ground falling to the left. It includes an external end stack on the right and an entrance to the left. The former outbuilding, now converted for domestic use in the late 20th century, has had its front wall rebuilt, a verandah added, and attic rooms inserted. The structure is one storey with an attic.
On the exterior, the cottage features a 19th-century two-light wooden casement window on the right, with a gable over the attic window. The doorway to the left has a 20th-century half-glazed door, framed by a 19th-century beaded wooden frame and a slate-roofed gabled porch with pierced barge boards. The former outbuilding includes a large 20th-century raking dormer, four ground-floor 20th-century two-light wooden casements, a central pair of 20th-century half-glazed doors, and a 20th-century glazed lean-to verandah. The cottage faces a courtyard, likely a former farmyard, opposite Nos. 1 and 2, Town Tenement.
Local climate
Town Tenement 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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