Lower Combe is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 January 1974. House.
Lower Combe
- WRENN ID
- blind-wattle-dawn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Honiton and Sidmouth MP: Richard Foord (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 January 1974
- Type
- House
- Address
- Lower Combe, Ottery St. Mary
- OS grid reference
- SY 099 919
- Coordinates
- 50.72004, -3.27719
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lower Combe is a building dating from the early 17th century or earlier. It is constructed of cob and features two storeys, with a colourwashed exterior and a thatched roof. On the west side, there is a large rubble chimney that projects outward, accompanied by an oven projection. The south elevation has two semi-dormer windows and a small leaded casement window on the first floor. The wide central entrance on the north side has a massive door frame and a stop-chamfered lintel. At the rear, there is a hewn wide-boarded door with a massive arched three-piece frame and strap hinges on lugs. Inside, the building showcases massive stop-chamfered beams, a wide fireplace with a stop-chamfered beam, and hewn roof principals and purlins.
Local climate
Lower Combe receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% 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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