The Gardens is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1988. House. 2 related planning applications.
The Gardens
- WRENN ID
- final-soffit-vermeil
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 March 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Gardens, South Street, Dolton, EX19 8QS
- OS grid reference
- SS 570 120
- Coordinates
- 50.89054, -4.0332
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Gardens is a small house located on South Street in Dolton, dating from the late 17th century to early 18th century, with an addition from the 18th century. The house features rendered cob walls and a gable-ended thatch roof. There are brick gable-end stacks on the left and at the rear wing, along with a projecting rendered rubble stack at the right gable-end with a brick shaft.
The building is two storeys high and has an asymmetrical front with two windows on the first floor and three on the ground floor. The ground floor windows are 20th-century one and two-light casements, while the first-floor windows have eyebrows in the thatch above them. A 20th-century plank door is positioned to the right of centre. The left-hand end has a wing that projects to the rear, featuring similar windows in small openings.
Inside, the right-hand room contains insubstantial rough cross beams and an open fireplace with a wooden lintel.
Local climate
The Gardens 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 — 2 transactions since 2001
- 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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