No 1 and 2 Hackwills is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 February 1977. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
No 1 and 2 Hackwills
- WRENN ID
- kindled-courtyard-rook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 February 1977
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- No 1 and 2 Hackwills, the Square, Dolton, EX19 8QQ
- OS grid reference
- SS 569 121
- Coordinates
- 50.89101, -4.03482
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 1 and 2 Hackwills are a pair of cottages, originally three, dated 1724, with 20th-century alterations and additions. The cottages have rendered cob walls and a gable-ended thatch roof. There is a projecting rendered rubble stack at the left gable end with a brick shaft, and an axial brick shaft on a stone base. The original plan likely consisted of three one-room cottages, each heated, but two of the left-hand cottages have been converted into one. A 19th-century rear outshut was added at the center, and a 20th-century addition was built behind the right-hand end.
The exterior is two storeys high with an asymmetrical window arrangement of three to the left and two to the right. No 1 on the left features two and three-light small-paned casements; the central first-floor window is from the 19th century, while the others are from the 20th century. There is a 19th-century plank door towards the left end, flanked by slightly projecting buttresses, and above it is a small slate plaque inscribed "Thomas Hackwill and Thomazin 1724," with a carved winged angel's head above. To the right of center is a 20th-century plank door with two additional buttresses beyond it. No 2 on the right has a 19th-century three-light casement on the left of the first floor, with late 20th-century PVC replicas to the right and below. There is a 20th-century lean-to glazed porch to the right, and all first-floor windows have small thatched gables above. A 20th-century outshut is against the left gable end.
Inside, No 1 has rough insubstantial beams in the left-hand room, and the feet of straight insubstantial principal rafters are visible on the first floor.
Local climate
No 1 and 2 Hackwills sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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 — 3 transactions since 2010
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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