Westcoombe House is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 August 1950. House. 1 related planning application.
Westcoombe House
- WRENN ID
- waning-brick-primrose
- 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
- Westcoombe House, Coombe Lane, Axminster, EX13 5AX
- OS grid reference
- SY 298 984
- Coordinates
- 50.78153, -2.99607
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Westcoombe House is an 18th-century house built of coursed stone and designed in an L-shape. It features a tiled roof with stone coping at the gable end and has two storeys plus an attic. The facade includes three window ranges with two and three-light mullion-transom casements that have leaded panes. The left-hand (east) range displays flat brick arches with keyblocks and a string course at the first-floor level. The right-hand (west) range is highlighted by a 19th-century stone porch that has columns and a simple entablature. The house is topped with red brick ridge chimney stacks.
Local climate
Westcoombe 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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