Broadtowne is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 November 1985. House.

Broadtowne

WRENN ID
half-barrel-gilt
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Devon
Constituency
Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
7 November 1985
Type
House
Address
Broadtowne, Milton Abbot
OS grid reference
SX 442 822
Coordinates
50.61924, -4.20283
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Broadtowne is a house dating from the late 17th century, with extensive renovations carried out in the 20th century. It is constructed of stone rubble, mostly covered in a wash and render, and features a slate roof with diminishing courses that is hipped at both ends. The house has one stone stack on the ridge and a lean-to addition at the rear right. Originally, it had a three-room layout with a through passage, although one wall of the passage has been dismantled.

The building is two storeys high and has an asymmetrical front with four windows. The central projection is gabled and slate-hung. To the left of this projection, there is a porch with a sloping slate roof. The ground floor has two 20th-century casement windows, while the first floor features four casements, all of which are two- and three-light with glazing bars. Inside, the hall contains a chamfered fireplace lintel, likely made of softwood, with ogee stops, although one jamb has been rebuilt. During renovations in the 1970s, the right gable end stack was dismantled, and the roof timbers were replaced.

Local climate

Broadtowne 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 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% 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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