Essington House and Coach House Immediately to South West is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 October 1987. House.

Essington House and Coach House Immediately to South West

WRENN ID
lost-corner-soot
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
Address
Essington House and Coach House Immediately to South West, Essington Road, North Tawton
OS grid reference
SS 664 018
Coordinates
50.80051, -3.89684
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Essington House is a house, reputedly originally a vicarage, dating from circa 1830-40, with a possible later 19th-century addition. The walls are mainly sandstone ashlar with stone rubble to the right-hand wing, and the roof is covered with slate, featuring coping stones to the gables. The house has several stone ashlar chimney stacks, some with circular shafts and one at the front which is castellated. The plan is roughly L-shaped, with the principal rooms located in the range to the left of the central entrance hall, facing the garden. Stairs are situated at the rear of the hall, with service rooms in the wing to the right. A further range of obviously inferior quality is situated beyond this wing, which may be a later service addition.

The house is built in the Tudor Gothic style, and is two and three storeys high. The garden front is symmetrical, with a three-window design and a central projecting gable. It features original three-light windows with square hoodmoulds; the ground floor windows have transoms, while the first floor windows are sash windows. The central gable has a carved stone shield above the first floor window and a dripcourse following the line of the gable. A chimney at the right-hand corner extends across the angle and is corbelled out from the wall. The entrance front has a porch with angle buttresses and a parapet, integral with the gable to the left. It includes a large four-centred arched doorway with original glazed doors and a two-light sash window above with arched heads. A recessed section to the right of the porch contains two and three-light windows. A large projecting gable, three stories high, is located to the right, featuring similar hoodmoulded windows.

The interior is surprisingly plain and simple compared to the exterior, and displays a classical rather than Gothic style with simple moulded cornices, four-panelled doors, and a staircase with stick balusters and turned newels. Connected by a wall to the south-west corner of the garden front is a former coach house, constructed of coursed stone rubble with a corbelled stone stack at its gable end.

Local climate

Essington House and Coach House Immediately to South West 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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