Honeychurch is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 February 1988. House.

Honeychurch

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Devon
Constituency
Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 February 1988
Type
House
Address
Honeychurch, Northlew
OS grid reference
SX 504 990
Coordinates
50.77183, -4.12193
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Honeychurch is a house dating from the early 17th century, possibly with earlier origins. It features plastered cob walls and a gable-ended roof that is thatched on one side and covered with corrugated iron on the other. The building has three brick stacks: one at each end and one in the middle. The layout consists of a three-room-and-through-passage plan, with the lower end located to the left and the hall stack positioned at the higher end. The inner and lower rooms are heated by fireplaces located at the gable ends.

In the 19th century, the house was subdivided into two cottages but was later converted back into a single dwelling. The exterior presents an asymmetrical front with four windows, featuring early 20th-century three-light casements. There is a 20th-century plank door to the left of the center and double doors to the right of the center. Inside, the hall includes an open fireplace with a chamfered and hollow step-stopped wooden lintel, along with a cloam oven. The roof features insubstantial straight trusses, likely from the 18th or 19th century, resting on the wall-plate.

Local climate

Honeychurch sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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