Dowlands Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 October 1984. Farmhouse. 5 related planning applications.
Dowlands Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- salt-mullion-wax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Honiton and Sidmouth MP: Richard Foord (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 October 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Dowlands Farmhouse, Axmouth, DT7 3XP
- OS grid reference
- SY 287 903
- Coordinates
- 50.70843, -3.01014
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dowlands Farmhouse is a stone farmhouse dated 1847. It has an ashlar front and a slate roof with stone coping to the gable ends, featuring shaped kneelers. The house is two storeys and an attic, with four bays and a slightly projecting gabled cross wing to the right. The windows are stone mullion windows with three and four lights, and dripmoulds. A gabled stone porch has a four-centred arch doorway with a dripmould and a datestone inscribed “1847”. The chimney stacks are rendered and located on the ridge and ends of the building.
Local climate
Dowlands Farmhouse 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2011
- 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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