Vealhays is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 May 1967. Hall house. 5 related planning applications.
Vealhays
- WRENN ID
- nether-keystone-hawk
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Honiton and Sidmouth MP: Richard Foord (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 May 1967
- Type
- Hall house
- Address
- Vealhays, Vealhays Lane, Kilmington, EX13 7RD
- OS grid reference
- SY 272 983
- Coordinates
- 50.7802, -3.03262
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Vealhays is a circa early 16th century hall house. It is a long rubble stone range set at a right angle to the road, with a thatched roof featuring gabled ends. The house has two storeys and a four-window front. Later casements with glazing bars are fitted in various window openings. A 20th-century thatched porch is located off-centre. The building has a stone ridge chimney stack with set-offs, a truncated chimney stack to the front, and another external stack at the rear. A rectangular staircase bay projects from the rear of the building. Inside, the original open hall retains jointed cruck trusses and wind braces. A partial plank and muntin screen is present at the higher end of the house. Inserted fireplaces feature chamfered stone jambs and chamfered timber bressummers, and the ceilings have stopped and chamfered spine beams with run-out stops.
Local climate
Vealhays 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 2006
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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