Diddywell is a Grade II* listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 June 1951. A C16 Historic house. 1 related planning application.
Diddywell
- WRENN ID
- quiet-chalk-sparrow
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 June 1951
- Type
- Historic house
- Address
- Diddywell, Northam, EX39 1NW
- OS grid reference
- SS 454 298
- Coordinates
- 51.04696, -4.20628
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Diddywell is a 16th-century house with alterations and additions, situated in Northam. Originally a rambling two-story structure, it is now plastered. The central part of the house features three windows and a ground-floor room with heavily moulded centre and wall beams, exhibiting rich carvings including stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops. The joists are now covered, but are believed to have also been enriched. The roof is covered with old, grouted slates, with part of the rear of the house slate-hung. A 16th or early 17th-century plaster frieze, originally present, has been removed. A portion of the open roof principal, including a cambered tie-beam, was visible in one first-floor room. The south wing, now divided off as a separate dwelling named Manor House Cottage, contains a wide stone fireplace with a restored stopped ovolo-moulded beam.
Local climate
Diddywell 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 22 transactions since 1995
- 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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