Letheren and Sons Office Hole Court is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 February 1988. A C17 Office.

Letheren and Sons Office Hole Court

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
Office
Address
Letheren and Sons Office Hole Court, Market Street, Hatherleigh
OS grid reference
SS 540 045
Coordinates
50.8222, -4.07326
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Letheren and Sons Office, located on the north side of Hatherleigh Market Street, is a building that was originally a farmhouse, dating from the early to mid 17th century, with possible earlier origins. It features rendered cob and rubble walls and has a thatched roof that is hipped to the left and gabled at the right end and rear wing. There are brick stacks at each end, with the left-hand stack having a projecting rubble base.

The building has a two-room plan, with a wing behind the left-hand end, and each room is heated by an end stack. It stands two storeys high with a roughly regular three-window front. The ground floor has late 20th-century PVC windows, while the first floor features a 20th-century two-light wooden casement window on the right, alongside what is likely an 18th-century two-light square section wooden mullion window to its left. Further left is a 17th-century three-light ovolo-moulded wooden mullion window. The central part of the front projects slightly, with a blocked doorway to the left and a 20th-century glazed door to the right.

Inside, there are chamfered and stopped ceiling beams, and while the fireplaces are blocked, they may still exist. At the time of the survey, there was no access to the first floor or roof timbers, but early roof trusses may still be present.

Local climate

Letheren and Sons Office Hole Court 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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