Higher Skellies is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1988. House. 4 related planning applications.
Higher Skellies
- WRENN ID
- night-lead-plover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 March 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Higher Skellies, Ashreigney, EX18 7PE
- OS grid reference
- SS 608 139
- Coordinates
- 50.90821, -3.97994
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Higher Skellies is a house dating from the late 17th century, constructed with rendered cob and rubble walls and topped with a gable-ended thatch roof. It features two projecting rendered rubble stacks with brick shafts at each gable end. The layout consists of a two-room plan with an unheated central service room and a passage at the front. The two main rooms are heated by fireplaces located at the gable ends.
The exterior is two storeys high and has an asymmetrical front with three windows, which are 20th-century two-light small-paned casements. There is also a 20th-century flat-roofed addition to the right of the centre, which includes a part-glazed door.
Inside, the left-hand room contains an open fireplace with a roughly chamfered wooden lintel, while the right-hand fireplace features a higher chamfered wooden lintel with run-out stops.
Local climate
Higher Skellies 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1995
- 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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