Eagle House Including Front Garden Walls is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 March 1988. House.
Eagle House Including Front Garden Walls
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dartmoor National Park
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 March 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Eagle House Including Front Garden Walls, Belstone, West Devon
- OS grid reference
- SX 620 936
- Coordinates
- 50.7264, -3.95551
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Eagle House is a late 19th-century house situated within the village of Belstone. The construction utilizes snecked granite with large granite ashlar quoins, granite stacks featuring plastered chimney shafts (likely brick beneath) and original chimney pots, and a grey slate roof with horizontal bands of purple-coloured fish scale slates.
The house is L-shaped. The main block faces south-east and accommodates a two-room plan, a central entrance lobby, and a staircase. A parlour wing projects at right angles from the left end, and an integral outshot adjoins the right end. The main block has end stacks, the left of which is shared laterally with the parlour. The house is two storeys high with attics within the roof space.
The exterior presents a regular yet deliberately asymmetrical facade. The ground floor windows are original timber, being three-light mullion-and-transom windows with casement openings, the upper lights having glazing bars. These windows feature chamfered reveals and Tudor-style hoodmoulds. First-floor casements also include glazing bars. The parlour wing exhibits windows within a projecting bay with a monopitch roof; a small attic window is positioned in the gable above it. The main entrance features a late 19th-century plank door with ornate strap hinges, set behind a contemporary glazed porch. Above the door is a small diamond-shaped light, and above that a slit window. An outshot incorporates a similar door and another slit window. The main block's roof is half-hipped to the right, and the parlour wing has a gable end. Ornate openwork bargeboards, carved with foliage, adorn this gable and the smaller gable above a window in the main block. Rear windows are distinguished by brick segmental arches, and include a large sash window with margin panes to the stairwell.
The interior of the house has not been inspected.
The front garden is demarcated by a low granite stone rubble wall incorporating an original wrought iron gate; this gateway is considered secondary. The original entrance is now blocked, but its location is indicated by monolithic granite gate posts. Eagle House is considered the finest of the new houses within the village of Belstone, which itself developed during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Local climate
Eagle House Including Front Garden Walls 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 80% 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 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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