Fermain House is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 October 1984. House. 2 related planning applications.
Fermain House
- WRENN ID
- winter-pilaster-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Honiton and Sidmouth MP: Richard Foord (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 October 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Fermain House, Dolphin Street, Colyton, EX24 6LU
- OS grid reference
- SY 247 941
- Coordinates
- 50.74228, -3.06799
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fermain House is an early 19th-century house located on Dolphin Street, Colyton. It is constructed of stucco with a bitumenised slate hipped roof, featuring bracketed eaves. The corners are marked by pilasters, rusticated at the base and decorated with a key pattern above. The house has two storeys and three bays. The central bay is distinguished by an elliptically arched recess containing a casement window with margin panes and a quatrefoil frieze above. First floor sash windows have glazing bars, while the ground floor features French windows with margin panes and rectangular fanlights with diamond panes. A central glazed porch is present, adorned with cast iron cresting and a tented canopy.
Local climate
Fermain House receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 7 transactions since 2003
- 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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