Corner House Court Stores is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 February 1977. Pair of houses. 1 related planning application.
Corner House Court Stores
- WRENN ID
- old-chalk-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 February 1977
- Type
- Pair of houses
- Address
- Corner House Court Stores, the Square, Sheepwash, EX21 5NE
- OS grid reference
- SS 486 062
- Coordinates
- 50.83634, -4.1508
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A pair of houses, one incorporating a shop, dating to the late 17th century, with possible earlier elements in the Court Stores wing, and 19th-century additions. The walls are rendered cobb and rubble construction. The roof is thatched, gabled to the left end and hipped to the right, with a brick stack at the left end and another axial to the wing; the wing's stack has a rendered rubble base and a brick shaft.
The front range, which consists of Court Stores and an adjoining cottage to the left, may originally have been a single house, but now each section comprises two rooms, the outer ones being heated. Behind the right-hand end of Court Stores is a wing that may predate the front range. To its left is a 19th-century rear outshut.
The front has a regular 6-window façade. Both houses have circa mid-19th century 9-pane sash windows on the first floor. Corner House has two 19th-century 12-pane sash windows on the ground floor, while Court Stores has a similar window to the right and a late 20th-century 2-light casement without glazing bars to the left. Both houses share identical late 19th-century doorhoods with cusped bargeboards. Corner House has a late 20th-century panelled and glazed door, and a 19th-century lean-to against its left-hand end. The wing behind Court Stores has 20th-century casements and a 20th-century panelled and glazed door to the left.
Inside Court Stores, there is a 17th-century fireplace with a chamfered spine beams with run-out stops to the wooden lintel, and a clom oven with a door in the right-hand room. There is also an 18th-century pegged A-frame roof structure.
Local climate
Corner House Court Stores 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2017
- 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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