Ford House Including Adjoining Stable Block to East and Gatepiers Adjoining North is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1985. House, stable block.
Ford House Including Adjoining Stable Block to East and Gatepiers Adjoining North
- WRENN ID
- ragged-floor-owl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Exmouth and Exeter East MP: David Reed (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 May 1985
- Type
- House, stable block
- OS grid reference
- SX 984 972
- Coordinates
- 50.76612, -3.4419
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ford House is a house dating from around 1840, constructed of cob on a stone plinth, rendered, and topped with a slate hipped roof that has brick stacks at the rear. The building has an L-shaped plan, with stables located in the rear range of a small courtyard. It is two storeys high and has a front facade with three bays. All five windows feature two 3-pane casements with margin panes, with those on the ground floor positioned under small blind-boxes that are supported by brackets on the first floor. The entrance includes a panelled front door with a semi-circular fanlight and panelled reveals, and is sheltered by a wooden lattice-work porch with a moulded canopy.
The end wall facing Town Hill has two blocked windows, and attached to this wall is the former service wing, which has one 3-light casement window on each floor, with the first-floor window being original. The interiors of the front rooms include semi-circular niches, panelled internal shutters, and small moulded cornices. The staircase features single turned balusters. Access to the yard is through trap gatepiers.
The stables are built of stone rubble and have a slate roof. There is an open-fronted cart shed with a weatherboarded hayloft above. The stable retains its original features, including two stalls with mangers, the hayloft above, which is weatherboarded externally, and a tack room.
Local climate
Ford House Including Adjoining Stable Block to East and Gatepiers Adjoining North receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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