12, The Square is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 October 1987. House, shop. 3 related planning applications.
12, The Square
- WRENN ID
- tired-mullion-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Devon
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 October 1987
- Type
- House, shop
- Address
- 12, The Square, North Tawton, EX20 2EP
- OS grid reference
- SS 663 017
- Coordinates
- 50.79952, -3.89772
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 12 The Square is a house and shop dating from the early 19th century. It features plastered stone walls and a gable-ended asbestos slate roof. The building has a double-depth plan, with the house section on the left, likely containing two rooms, and a shop on the right.
The exterior is three storeys high and has an asymmetrical front with three windows. The original windows are 16-pane hornless sashes with moulded architraves, and the first-floor windows have projecting keystones. On the ground floor, there are two canted bay windows; the left-hand one is likely Victorian, while the right-hand one is original, featuring small panes and a moulded cornice. To the right, there is a projecting 19th-century shopfront that includes a 20th-century window and two 20th-century glazed doors, with the left-hand door leading to the house. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
12, The Square 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2012
- 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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