Rock House is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 June 1951. House.
Rock House
- WRENN ID
- crooked-chapel-jackdaw
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 June 1951
- Type
- House
- Address
- Rock House, 1, the Quay, Northam, EX39 1QS
- OS grid reference
- SS 465 303
- Coordinates
- 51.05228, -4.19108
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rock House is a late 18th century or early 19th century building located on The Quay in Appledore. It is a two-storey structure with a three-window stucco front that faces Marine Parade, set back behind a garden. The ground floor features rusticated detailing and a moulded eaves cornice. The roof is hipped and covered with slate. The building has sash windows with glazing bars, and the first floor includes window box guards. The doorcase is adorned with Doric columns and a mutular entablature, along with a fanlight above. There is a one-storey garage wing that has a splayed bay and Venetian windows, with one window facing The Quay. All the listed buildings in The Quay form a group.
Local climate
Rock House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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