Lower Aish Guest House is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 November 1986. Guest house.

Lower Aish Guest House

WRENN ID
muted-tracery-shade
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dartmoor National Park
Constituency
Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 November 1986
Type
Guest house
Address
Lower Aish Guest House, Widecombe in the Moor, Teignbridge
OS grid reference
SX 705 720
Coordinates
50.5343, -3.82749
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Lower Aish Guest House is a guest house that was formerly a farmhouse, dating from the 17th century or earlier. It features roughcast solid walls, likely made of stone, and has a slated roof. There are large granite chimneystacks on each gable, with a slightly larger rendered stack on the ridge, offset to the right. The building is probably designed with a three-room and cross-passage plan, with a hall stack backing onto the passage. It stands two storeys high and has a front that is four windows wide. All windows are six-paned sashes with horns.

There is a single-storey entrance porch with solid walls and a slated pent roof. The round-arched granite doorway is moulded and features carved spandrels, one of which contains the date 16--, possibly 1653. To the left of the porch, the ground-storey front wall has a slight pent-roofed projection.

Although the interior was not inspected, historical accounts mention that the porch bears the date 1656 and the initials TH. The house has been in the Hamlyn family for at least two centuries and contains a large fragment of oak panelling with a familiar linen pattern. The building suffered significant fire damage around the 1930s, according to information from Mrs. F Wilkinson.

Local climate

Lower Aish Guest House receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% 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 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% 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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