Neno's House is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 February 1989. Cottage.
Neno's House
- WRENN ID
- dusted-thatch-hazel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 February 1989
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Neno's House, Beaford
- OS grid reference
- SS 540 165
- Coordinates
- 50.92986, -4.07762
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Neno's House is a cottage that likely dates from the mid to late 17th century and was enlarged in the 18th century. It has been altered in the late 20th century, including changes to the windows. The building is rendered over cob on a stone rubble plinth and features a half-hipped wheatstraw thatched roof. There is an off-centre axial stack to the right with a later brick top, as well as an external stone end stack to the right, also topped with brick.
The original 17th-century layout consists of a two-room plan, with a larger principal room on the left and a smaller room on the right, separated by the axial stack. There is a large external end stack on the right. An 18th-century addition on the right is a one-roomed plan that projects slightly and may have originally been an outbuilding. The cottage is one storey with an attic and has a later two-storey addition.
The front of the house is asymmetrically fenestrated. The 17th-century section has a pair of semi-dormers on the right with late 20th-century two-light leaded plastic windows, along with three ground-floor late 20th-century two-light leaded plastic windows, likely in original openings. The doorway between the first and second windows from the left features a late 20th-century glazed door and a 20th-century gabled porch. There is another doorway at the right-hand end with a late 20th-century door and a slate-roofed lean-to porch. The 18th-century right-hand block has a ground-floor late 20th-century two-light leaded plastic window, probably in an old opening, and a pair of late 20th-century two-light leaded plastic windows in the right-hand end wall. The right-hand end stack of the 17th-century range, located at the rear of the right-hand addition, has weatherings and a projecting semi-circular slate-roofed bread oven in the angle to the right. There is also a 20th-century one-storey lean-to addition at the rear of the 17th-century range, and a boarded door at the rear of the 18th-century addition. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Neno's House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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