Lyme House is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 August 1950. A Early 19th century House. 4 related planning applications.
Lyme House
- WRENN ID
- still-keep-brook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Honiton and Sidmouth MP: Richard Foord (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 August 1950
- Type
- House
- Address
- Lyme House, Lyme Road, Axminster, EX13 5AZ
- OS grid reference
- SY 299 984
- Coordinates
- 50.78155, -2.99519
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lyme House is an early 19th-century house situated on the south-west side of Lyme Road in Axminster. The house is rendered with an ashlar plinth and has a hipped slate roof. It is arranged with three bays, and incorporates two-storey, segmentally bowed bays to the left and right. The windows are sash windows with glazing bars, with tripartite sashes on the ground floor. A central wide porch features Tuscan columns that support a broken pediment, panelled double doors, a large traceried semi-circular fanlight, and panelled reveals.
Local climate
Lyme House receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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 — 3 transactions since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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