17, The Square is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 October 1987. House. 1 related planning application.
17, The Square
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-kitchen-starling
- 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
- 17, The Square, North Tawton, EX20 2EP
- OS grid reference
- SS 663 017
- Coordinates
- 50.79991, -3.89822
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 17 The Square is a house dating from the 18th century, located in North Tawton. It features rendered stone walls and a slate roof that is gabled to the left and hipped at the right end. There is a rendered stack at the left gable end. The building likely has a double depth, two-room plan but originally formed part of the property to the left, which is No. 16. The exterior is two storeys high with an asymmetrical front that has two windows. The first floor has early 19th-century 12-pane sash windows, while the ground floor has later 19th-century sashes. A six-panel door from the early 19th century is located to the left. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
17, 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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