Poolsteps is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 October 1988. House. 1 related planning application.
Poolsteps
- WRENN ID
- keen-span-acorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 October 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Poolsteps, Weare Giffard, EX38 7HB
- OS grid reference
- SS 490 226
- Coordinates
- 50.98323, -4.15165
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Poolsteps is a house dating from the late 17th or early 18th century. It is colourwashed with a 20th-century render over a cob and stone core, and has a gabled thatched roof with stone end stacks. The house has a three-unit plan and a symmetrical three-window front. A 20th-century door is set within a thatched porch. The windows are 20th-century two-light casements with flat rendered arches. A 19th-century one-bay extension with a 20th-century door and hipped roof is attached to the left side. A 17th-century two-light, chamfered wood-mullioned window is located at the rear. The interior features stone flag floors, stop-chamfered beams, and plain bressumners over two open fireplaces, with a cloam oven on the left. The roof is an A-frame construction with pegged collars, notched apexes, original 17th-century trenched purlins, and split oak rafters.
Local climate
Poolsteps receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% 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 — 4 transactions since 1995
- 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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