Newton House is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1983. Villa. 2 related planning applications.
Newton House
- WRENN ID
- waiting-balcony-plum
- 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
- Villa
- Address
- Newton House, Okehampton Road, Tavistock, PL19 0HY
- OS grid reference
- SX 491 752
- Coordinates
- 50.55717, -4.13089
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Newton House is a villa built around 1830, originally known as Parkwood, and is now part of Kelly College. The main section of the building is three stories high, flanked by two-story side wings. It features a parapet with a raised center and a cornice. There are five windows in total, including some three-light sash windows that have either brackets or anthemions. The entrance is marked by a Doric porch supported by four columns, which includes a rectangular fanlight and side lights.
Local climate
Newton House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 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 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% 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 — 2 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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