Lovacott is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1988. House.
Lovacott
- WRENN ID
- errant-stair-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Lovacott, Shebbear
- OS grid reference
- SS 459 081
- Coordinates
- 50.85246, -4.18964
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lovacott is a house dating from the early to mid-19th century, with a possible later 19th-century addition. It features plastered stone walls and a hipped slate roof, with gables on the rear wings. The building has two brick axial stacks and one at the gable end of the rear wing. The front range is double depth, with rooms on either side of a central entrance hall. There are two rear wings, one of which is likely an original service wing.
The house is two storeys tall with a symmetrical three-window front. On the first floor, there are original 12-pane hornless sash windows, with projecting keystones above the outer ones. Below, on each side, are three-light canted bay windows, which are probably original but have had late 20th-century PVC lights inserted. A central glazed porch has been added below the original canopy door hood, featuring a six-panel door with a semi-circular fanlight above. The right-hand corner of the front displays the remains of rusticated plaster quoins. At the rear, there are two parallel wings to the left and centre.
The interior was not accessible during the survey but is likely to contain original joinery, including doors, shutters, and staircase, as well as simple plasterwork.
Local climate
Lovacott sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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