Broadhall is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1967. House, shop.

Broadhall

WRENN ID
waning-arch-thyme
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Devon
Constituency
Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 February 1967
Type
House, shop
Address
Broadhall, the Square, North Tawton
OS grid reference
SS 663 016
Coordinates
50.79925, -3.89746
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Broadhall is a house, now incorporating a shop, dating back to the late 15th or early 16th century, which has undergone extensive remodelling and extensions in the 19th century. It is constructed of plastered and exposed stone rubble walls with granite ashlar detailing, and has a gable-ended slate roof with two brick gable end stacks. A projecting original front lateral stack of stone rubble with granite ashlar quoins features a tall shaft with a tapering cap and moulded dripcourse.

The original plan was likely a 3-room and through passage layout, though this has been significantly altered. Surviving elements of the earlier house include the passage on the left and the hall to its right, along with a projecting window bay and adjoining lateral stack. The interior was heavily remodelled in the 19th century, with a shop created in the inner room and a late 19th-century wing added to the rear.

The front of the building presents an asymmetrical 3-window facade, with a shop to the right and a projecting gabled bay window centrally. A two-centred moulded granite arched doorway with arched hoodmould and a 20th-century plank double door is on the left, above which is an early to mid-19th century 16-pane sash window. The projecting stack is immediately to the right of the doorway, with a large window bay beyond, and a chamfered plinth extends around both. The ground-floor bay window has an ornate eight-light mullion window; four original mullions survive, ornately carved with a delicate leaf design, continuing round the head above each light, while the remaining mullions are granite replacements. A 19th-century 3-light transomed window with leaded panes is above. The gable features decorative bargeboards and a finial. A small stone inscribed with the date 1689 is positioned above the mullion window, though it was discovered elsewhere on the property and placed there in the 20th century. To the right of the bay is a circa late 19th-century double shop front, with a late 19th-century showroom window above the right-hand section. Internal features are largely concealed by 19th and 20th-century alterations, and the roof was entirely replaced in the 19th century.

Local climate

Broadhall 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 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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