Weycroft Manor and Weycroft Well House is a Grade II* listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 June 1983. Manor house and well house. 5 related planning applications.
Weycroft Manor and Weycroft Well House
- WRENN ID
- pale-loft-holly
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Honiton and Sidmouth MP: Richard Foord (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 June 1983
- Type
- Manor house and well house
- Address
- Weycroft Manor and Weycroft Well House, Axminster, EX13 7LL
- OS grid reference
- SY 307 998
- Coordinates
- 50.79402, -2.98373
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Weycroft Manor and Weycroft Well House date from around the 16th century and possibly earlier. The buildings are constructed of coursed stone, and the original thatched roof has been replaced with wood shingles. The gable ends feature stone coping. The manor is a long, two-storey structure with four windows and a moulded string course above the ground floor windows. To the right of the centre, there is a two-storey gabled porch with a round-arched doorway, a moulded wood inner doorcase, and a panelled door. The windows are modern four-light casements, and there are ashlar ridge chimney stacks.
Projecting to the right is a wing known as Weycroft Well House, which has a splayed corner and slit windows, along with a gabled cross wing set back at the end that features a small stone window in the gable. A large square chimney stack rises over the gable, adorned with moulded stone shafts and a cornice.
Inside Weycroft Manor, there is an 18th-century dog-leg staircase with a moulded string and turned balusters. An early 18th-century panelled room features moulded cornices and an overmantle painting depicting a hunting scene, which is now located in the hall. The Well House includes heavy chamfered ceiling beams, a Tudor arched doorway, and a chamfered fireplace bressummer. There is also a painting over the door on the first floor that resembles the one in Weycroft Manor.
Local climate
Weycroft Manor and Weycroft Well 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
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1995
- 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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