Woodbury House is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 April 1986. House.
Woodbury House
- WRENN ID
- young-joist-coral
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Exmouth and Exeter East MP: David Reed (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 April 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Woodbury House, Greenway
- OS grid reference
- SY 010 871
- Coordinates
- 50.67547, -3.40127
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Woodbury House is a detached house built in 1781 for Philip Lempriere, who was the Attorney General of Jersey from 1758 to 1769. The house is constructed of brick in Flemish bond and features a gabled-end slate roof with heavy coping on the gables. It has a double-depth plan, with the main rooms located on either side of a central stair hall, secondary rooms at the rear, and two rear service ends. The house is two storeys high.
The front of the house is symmetrical with a three-window range and a parapet. All the windows are tripartite hornless sash windows with a 4:12:4 pane configuration, except for the central first-floor window, which has a single 12-pane horned sash. The central doorway is framed by a moulded architrave and has a canopy supported by console brackets. The door itself is a quarter glazed fielded panel door topped with a traceried rectangular fanlight. There are three full dormers, each containing two lights.
On the right-hand end of the house, there is a rainwater head dated 'P.L. 1781'. The two lower rear wings are both two storeys high, with the right wing featuring a 4:6:4 pane tripartite sash window, a 12-pane sash window, and two casement windows. The other wing has some later casement windows, with an axial stack on the former and an end stack on the latter wing.
Local climate
Woodbury House receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 51% 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 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% 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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