Spears Fishleigh is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 February 1988. House.
Spears Fishleigh
- WRENN ID
- carved-hearth-barley
- 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
- Spears Fishleigh, Hatherleigh
- OS grid reference
- SS 549 055
- Coordinates
- 50.83151, -4.06118
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Spear's Fishleigh is a house, formerly a farmhouse, dating from around the mid-17th century, with alterations made in the 20th century. The building features rendered cob and rubble walls and has a gable-ended slate roof. There are two brick stacks, one at the left-hand end and one axial. The layout consists of a three-room and through-passage plan, with the lower end located to the right. The hall is heated by the axial stack that backs onto the passage. In the 20th century, the roof was raised, and stairs were added at the rear of the passage.
The exterior is two storeys high and has an asymmetrical front with two windows, featuring 20th-century one, two, and three-light casements. To the right of the centre, there is a 20th-century plank door set in a recessed section with pillars at the front. A small fire light is located in the wall to the left of the door.
Inside, the hall includes an open fireplace with a chamfered and stopped wooden lintel, as well as chamfered axial beams with bead-moulded joists. The roof timbers were replaced when the eaves were raised.
Local climate
Spears Fishleigh 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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