1, North Street is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1988. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
1, North Street
- WRENN ID
- spare-cupola-plover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1988
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 1, North Street, Sheepwash, EX21 5NJ
- OS grid reference
- SS 486 064
- Coordinates
- 50.83799, -4.15109
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 1 North Street is a cottage, likely built in the early 18th century, with additions from the 19th and 20th centuries. It features plastered cob walls and a gable-ended thatch roof, along with a brick stack at the gable end. The cottage has a one-room plan that may have originally extended into the adjacent house on its right. A 19th-century rear outshot has been added, as well as a small 20th-century addition on the left end.
The exterior is two storeys high with an asymmetrical front that has one window, featuring late 19th or early 20th century three-light casements. To the right, there is a 19th-century gabled porch with decorative ridge-tiles, and behind it, a 19th-century plank door.
While modest in itself, this cottage is significant due to its location as the first home seen on the road into the village, contributing to the unspoilt atmosphere of Sheepwash.
Local climate
1, North Street 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2023
- 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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