Pittbridge is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1988. House. 2 related planning applications.

Pittbridge

WRENN ID
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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
Pittbridge, Shebbear, EX21 5QP
OS grid reference
SS 437 094
Coordinates
50.8638, -4.22167
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Pittbridge is a house with origins in the 17th century, but significantly remodelled and extended in the 19th century. The house is constructed of rendered cob and rubble walls, with a gable-ended slate roof. It has two brick stacks: one axial and another at the left gable end. The current plan consists of three rooms, with a large central room featuring a 17th-century fireplace at its left end. The room to the left may be a 19th-century addition, and a late 19th-century service wing was added behind the right-hand end of the house.

The façade is asymmetrical, with a four-window front dating from the early 19th century. The first floor has 16-pane horizontal sliding sash windows. The ground floor features larger marginal-pane sashes from the mid-19th century; the right-hand one is a French window. A panelled and glazed door is located to the right of centre. A late 19th-century verandah, with cast iron pillars and decorative spandrels, runs along the front of the house.

Inside, the central room has a fireplace with a chamfered spine beam with run-out stops (step-stopped) and a cloam oven. Other interior features date to the 19th century.

Local climate

Pittbridge 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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