Fidget's Rest is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1988. House.
Fidget's Rest
- WRENN ID
- waiting-lancet-frost
- 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
- Fidget's Rest, Ashreigney
- OS grid reference
- SS 610 140
- Coordinates
- 50.90878, -3.97777
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fidget's Rest is a house that likely dates back to medieval times, with alterations from the early to mid 17th century and probable extensions made in the 19th century. The building has rendered cob walls and a hipped thatch roof, with a projecting rendered rubble lateral stack at the front.
The original layout was probably a two-room-and-through-passage plan, with a hall on the right heated by the front lateral stack. The right-hand end of the house appears to be a 19th-century extension or a conversion of an outbuilding.
The exterior features two storeys and an asymmetrical three-window front. The right-hand end is a lower extension that has a window only on the ground floor. The windows are 20th-century casements with one and two lights. There is a 20th-century thatched porch towards the left-hand end, which has a later 20th-century panelled door behind it.
Inside, the house is said to have a smoke-blackened medieval roof structure, and there may be additional early internal features.
Local climate
Fidget's Rest 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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