Bounsell's House and Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 February 1989. House. 1 related planning application.
Bounsell's House and Cottage
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-garret-cedar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 February 1989
- Type
- House
- Address
- Bounsell's House and Cottage, Merton, EX20 3DS
- OS grid reference
- SS 529 123
- Coordinates
- 50.89171, -4.09159
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bounsell's House and Cottage is a pair of houses that were originally one building, dating from the early to mid 19th century. The structure features rendered stone walls and a gable-ended slate roof, with brick stacks at each gable end of the front range. The original layout consisted of a single-depth, two-room front range with equal-sized rooms and a central hall, while a service wing at the left-hand end has been converted into a separate cottage.
The exterior is two storeys high with a symmetrical three-window front. The first floor has original 12-pane sash windows, while the ground floor has 16-pane sashes. At the centre, there is an original flat doorhood with a moulded cornice, which has been filled in below with glazed panels in the 20th century to create a porch. The eaves cornice is simple and rests on projecting joist ends. The wing at the left-hand end, now the Cottage, features three windows: two 19th-century partly leaded two-light casements, one on the first floor and one below that is transomed. There is also a late 19th-century or early 20th-century four-pane sash on the ground floor to the right, and a two-light 20th-century casement to the left on the first floor, below which is a 20th-century panelled and glazed door.
The interior has not been inspected, but original joinery such as the staircase, cupboards, and panelled doors may still be present.
Local climate
Bounsell's House and Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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