Pillhead House is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1973. A C19 House. 1 related planning application.
Pillhead House
- WRENN ID
- silent-flue-smoke
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 March 1973
- Type
- House
- Address
- Pillhead House, Old Barnstaple Road, Bideford, EX39 4NF
- OS grid reference
- SS 475 270
- Coordinates
- 51.02232, -4.17537
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pillhead House is a large house from the early 19th century. It features solid rendered walls and a hipped slate roof, with old red-brick chimneys. The building has a double-depth plan with a rear right wing and stands two storeys high, presenting a three-window range. The central doorway is framed by attached Doric columns and an entablature with a fluted frieze, leading to a four-panelled door where the top two panels are round-headed, accompanied by matching panelled reveals. The ground-storey windows consist of triple sashes with six over six panes flanked by one over one panes, while the upper storey windows have sashes with six over six panes. A boxed, fluted eaves cornice adds to the architectural detail, and similar windows are found in the side elevations. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Pillhead House receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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