Diwells is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 April 1973. Shop. 3 related planning applications.
Diwells
- WRENN ID
- inner-stronghold-azure
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 April 1973
- Type
- Shop
- Address
- Diwells, 8, Fore Street, Great Torrington, EX38 8HQ
- OS grid reference
- SS 495 191
- Coordinates
- 50.9522, -4.14276
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building at number 8 Fore Street, Diwell’s, dates probably to the 17th and 18th centuries, with alterations made subsequently. It occupies two street frontages. The right-hand side presents as a three-storey plastered facade with a gable. It features a sash window on the second floor and a later splayed bay window on the first floor. A modern shop front fills the ground floor. The left-hand side displays a two-storey stucco facade, with two doors at ground level and a first floor featuring windows with glazing bars. The roof is hipped and covered in slate. Numbers 2, 4, and 8, and numbers 7, 13, and 15 on the North Side, are grouped together for their collective group value.
Local climate
Diwells receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% 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 — 4 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- 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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