Old Vealhays Including Outbuilding Adjoining North is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 October 1984. Farmhouse.

Old Vealhays Including Outbuilding Adjoining North

WRENN ID
western-tracery-summer
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
OS grid reference
SY 273 983
Coordinates
50.78012, -3.03227
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Old Vealhays, including the adjoining outbuilding to the north, is a former farmhouse dating from the early 16th century. It features an open hall house design with a floor and stack inserted later. The building is constructed of roughcast stone rubble and has a thatched roof with gabled ends. The adjoining outbuilding has a thatched roof with a hipped end. The structure is two storeys high and has a long range of six windows. The windows are 20th-century two and three light casements with glazing bars. There is a flush panel door leading to a cross passage located to the left of the centre. A loft door can be found in the outbuilding to the north. At the rear, there are small chamfered wooden mullion windows and a projecting staircase bay with a two-light window featuring leaded panes. A rear wing, dating from the 17th century, creates an L-shaped plan and has brick chimney stacks at the ridge. Inside, the building has jointed cruck trusses that show signs of smoke-blackening, stopped and chamfered ceiling beams, and a fireplace with a chamfered bressummer and stone jambs. The rear staircase has turned balusters and newels.

Local climate

Old Vealhays Including Outbuilding Adjoining North 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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