Widey Grange is a Grade II listed building in the Plymouth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 May 1975. Country house. 1 related planning application.
Widey Grange
- WRENN ID
- quiet-forge-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Plymouth
- Constituency
- Plymouth Moor View MP: Fred Thomas (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 May 1975
- Type
- Country house
- Address
- Widey Grange, Widey Lane, City of Plymouth, PL6 5JS
- OS grid reference
- SX 489 582
- Coordinates
- 50.40496, -4.12645
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Widey Grange is a probable farmhouse that later became a small country house, likely built in the 17th century, with the front remodeled in the early 19th century. The building is constructed of stucco and has a dry slate hipped roof with projecting eaves at the front, while the rear features an irregular arrangement of roofs. There are large rendered lateral stacks at the back of the front range. The plan is mostly from the 18th century or earlier, consisting of a two-room front range and a deep service wing at the rear left, which is in two stages. There is also a wing returned at the rear right with a well house in front, along with an early 20th-century lean-to conservatory on the left.
The house has two storeys and a symmetrical three-window front with a plinth and mid-floor string. The early to mid-19th-century sash windows have glazing bars and small horns. The central doorway features a six-panel door, with the top four panes later glazed. The porch is a much-repaired distyle Doric style with unfluted columns that are partly bricked in, along with a complete Doric entablature that includes triglyphs.
Inside, notable features include a remodelled 18th-century staircase with turned balusters and a later turned newel, as well as a stone trough in the rear right-hand wing. The roof structures have not been inspected.
Local climate
Widey Grange sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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