Society of Friends is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Society of Friends
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Devon
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Society of Friends, 4, Canal Road, Tavistock, PL19 8AR
- OS grid reference
- SX 480 741
- Coordinates
- 50.54753, -4.14651
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 4, the Society of Friends, is a cottage dating from around 1817. It is one of a pair of cottages that flank the entrance to Canal Wharf, with the other being No 5. The building is two storeys high and constructed from stone rubble, topped with a slate roof. At the rear, there is an outshut. The front features three round-headed casements with Gothic-style heads and a cambered doorcase. To the right side, there is a rubble pier, and the right side elevation is hung with slate.
Local climate
Society of Friends 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 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- 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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