Chimneys is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1958. House.
Chimneys
- WRENN ID
- riven-gutter-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 February 1958
- Type
- House
- Address
- Chimneys, Monkleigh
- OS grid reference
- SS 455 207
- Coordinates
- 50.96562, -4.20141
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Chimneys is a house dating from the early 17th century. It is constructed of coursed slatestone rubble, with cob on the front and rear, and has a colourwashed render. The gabled slate roof features a stone stack on the left end and an external lateral stone stack in the center of the front wall. The house has a 3-unit plan, with a through-passage to the right of the central hall, a parlour to the right, and a service room to the left. It is two storeys high and has a four-window range. There is a 20th-century door to the left and a 20th-century lean-to pentice over another 20th-century door to the right of the lateral stack. The windows have flat rendered arches, with late 19th-century two-light casements and a 20th-century casement in the top right. A 20th-century outshut is present at the rear.
Inside, there are cased beams in the room to the right. A 17th-century plank door and a 19th-century quarter-turn staircase with winders are located to the left of the passage. The lateral stack in the central room, which was formerly the hall, has an open fireplace with a roll and ogee stop to the chamfered bressummer. The principal rafters of the A-frame trusses are visible on the first floor. The layout of this house is similar to that of Crossway and Cross Cottage.
Local climate
Chimneys 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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