Nos 17, 18, 19, 20 and Church View Cottage Including Front Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 February 1989. Cottage. 4 related planning applications.
Nos 17, 18, 19, 20 and Church View Cottage Including Front Railings
- WRENN ID
- swift-mullion-starling
- 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
- Nos 17, 18, 19, 20 and Church View Cottage Including Front Railings, St. Giles in the Wood, EX38 7JQ
- OS grid reference
- SS 533 189
- Coordinates
- 50.95147, -4.08853
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A row of five cottages, originally six, dating to circa 1877 and built for the Honourable Mark George Kerr Rolle. The cottages are constructed of local stone rubble laid in rough courses, with stone stacks topped with 19th-century and 20th-century brick, and have slate roofs. The cottages face east towards the churchyard opposite and are numbered 17 to Church View Cottage from left to right. They have varying internal plans, ranging from one-room to three-room layouts, each heated by a series of axial and gable-end stacks. Church View Cottage, at the right end, was formed by combining a one-room and a two-room cottage.
Externally, the cottages present a regular eleven-window front with late 19th-century replacement casement windows with glazing bars. The three ground floor windows on the left (Nos. 17 and 18) have flat stone arches above. Other windows have 20th-century concrete lintels. The two-window section at the right end (Church View Cottage) features low segmental arches constructed of grey ashlar voussoirs. The front doorways have a variety of doors, some of which are original plank doors. Each cottage has a gabled porch with a Tudor arch-headed outer arch in the plank gable, trellis sides, and brick sleeper walls. These porches are topped with finials and pendants, and most have survived in varying degrees. The interiors were not inspected.
A narrow strip of ground along the front is enclosed by original cast iron railings featuring plain railings and bulbous standards with fleur-de-lys finials, along with original gates of a similar style. These cottages form a part of the Rolle estate village, which was remodelled shortly after Stevenstone Court (now ruined) was rebuilt in 1872-73.
Local climate
Nos 17, 18, 19, 20 and Church View Cottage Including Front Railings receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% 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.
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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