Grathorne Old Orchard House is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1983. Residential. 5 related planning applications.
Grathorne Old Orchard House
- WRENN ID
- empty-basalt-ebony
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Devon
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1983
- Type
- Residential
- Address
- Grathorne Old Orchard House, 205, Whitchurch Road, Tavistock, PL19 9DQ
- OS grid reference
- SX 489 728
- Coordinates
- 50.53563, -4.13308
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building comprises a pair of cottages, numbered 203 and 205, dating from around 1840. They are slate-hung with projecting gabled wings at each end, featuring fretted bargeboards and splayed bays to the ground floor. Each cottage has three windows. A glazed trellis verandah with coloured glass runs along the centre of the pair.
Local climate
Grathorne Old Orchard House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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