Stepps Country Club is a Grade II* listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 May 1967. A C16 Club premises.
Stepps Country Club
- WRENN ID
- dark-sandstone-jay
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Honiton and Sidmouth MP: Richard Foord (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 May 1967
- Type
- Club premises
- Address
- Stepps Country Club, Stepps Road, Axmouth
- OS grid reference
- SY 260 909
- Coordinates
- 50.71342, -3.04821
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Stepps Country Club is a 16th-century house that has been converted into club premises. It is constructed from stone rubble and flint, topped with a thatched roof featuring gabled ends. The building is two storeys high and has a long, widely spaced six-window range, with the right-hand side slightly recessed. The windows include one, two, three, and five-light casements with leaded panels. To the left of the centre, there is a heavy timber doorway with a four-centred arch. A drip moulding is present over a window in the east gable end, and the rear features ovolo moulded and chamfered mullion windows. The front has two external stone chimney stacks with set-offs and moulded caps, along with stone end and ridge stacks that also have moulded caps, with the end stack being corbelled and two ridge stacks having been rebuilt. There is a small lean-to addition made of stone rubble, dating from the 18th to 19th century, on the left side.
Inside, the building features jointed cruck trusses and three plank and muntin screens, one of which has a blocked pointed arch doorway while the other has a four-centred arch doorway. The screen to the cross-passage has been removed. The ceilings have heavy stopped chamfer beams, and there is an open fireplace with a chamfered stone surround. Additionally, there is another stone chimneypiece with a chamfered four-centred arch and a 19th-century moulded wood chimneypiece. A 17th-century moulded plaster frieze on the first floor displays acanthus leaves and the date "16..".
Local climate
Stepps Country Club receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 66% 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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