Blandford House is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 February 1977. A C17 House.
Blandford House
- WRENN ID
- proud-stronghold-frost
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 February 1977
- Type
- House
- Address
- Blandford House, the Square, Dolton
- OS grid reference
- SS 569 121
- Coordinates
- 50.89072, -4.0351
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Blandford House is a small house that dates from the 17th century or possibly earlier. It has plastered cob walls and a thatched roof, which is hipped at the right end and gabled at the left where it connects to another building. There is a projecting plastered stack at the right-hand end with a brick shaft, and a rubble rear lateral stack.
The current layout features a two-room plan, although it may have originally extended to the left into the adjoining property. The right-hand room is heated by the end stack, while the left-hand room is heated by the rear lateral stack and has a stair that projects at the front.
The house is two storeys high and has an asymmetrical two-window front, with one window located above the rectangular stair projection to the left of centre. The windows are early 20th century two-light small-paned casements. There is a part-glazed door from the 20th century in a small lean-to porch to the left of the stair projection.
While the interior was inaccessible during the survey, the house maintains a traditional external appearance and is likely to contain interesting internal features.
Local climate
Blandford House 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2000
- No related consent applications matched
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