Ellon House Including Outbuildings and Courtyard Wall to North West is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 May 1987. House. 1 related planning application.

Ellon House Including Outbuildings and Courtyard Wall to North West

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Devon
Constituency
Honiton and Sidmouth MP: Richard Foord (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 May 1987
Type
House
Address
Ellon House Including Outbuildings and Courtyard Wall to North West, Newton Poppleford and Harpford, EX10 0NH
OS grid reference
SY 091 904
Coordinates
50.707, -3.28859
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Ellon House, including its outbuildings and courtyard wall to the northwest, is a house and outbuildings built around 1850. The structure is made of plastered stone rubble or brick, likely with brick stacks and plastered brick chimney shafts, and features slate roofs. The building is L-shaped, with the main block facing west and having a two-room layout with a central entrance hall and staircase. The southern room has a rear lateral stack, while the northern room has an end stack. There is a single-room rear block at the left end, and the service courtyard attached to this end is slightly misaligned. The adjoining service room is a single room, and there is a two-room cottage at right angles to it, which projects forward and has a 20th-century garage in front. The cobbled courtyard in front of the service room and cottage is enclosed by a cob wall.

The main house is two storeys high and has a symmetrical five-window front featuring circa 1850 fenestration. This includes French windows on the ground floor with glazing bars, which have glass panes the same size as the first-floor sashes, and a central 12-pane sash flanked by two 16-pane sashes. The entrance features a central part-glazed and panelled door with a hip-roofed open porch that has trellis sides. The roof is gable-ended. The service room has 19th-century casements with glazing bars and is gable-ended with a roof lower than that of the main block. The cottage is also gable-ended and matches the height of the service room, featuring a two-window front with 12-pane sashes and a central plank door. An arch-headed window with glazing bars, which turns to a Gothic pattern at the top, is located at the left (west) end. The tall wall surrounding the cobbled courtyard is made of plastered cob on rubble footings, topped with interlocking tile coping. The interior retains a significant amount of original detail, making it an attractive and minimally modernised house. It is shown as Riverside on the Ordnance Survey map.

Local climate

Ellon House Including Outbuildings and Courtyard Wall to North West receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% 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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