The Old Manse is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1988. House.
The Old Manse
- WRENN ID
- final-solder-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Exmouth and Exeter East MP: David Reed (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Manse, the Square, Whimple
- OS grid reference
- SY 043 972
- Coordinates
- 50.7665, -3.35751
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Manse is a house built around 1850, constructed from plastered stone rubble or brick, with brick stacks and chimney shafts, and a slate roof. The house faces The Square to the south and features a double depth plan with a service passage at the right east end. Inside, there are front and back rooms on either side of the central entrance and main stair, with an axial stack on the right and a gable-end stack on the left.
The exterior has a four-window front, showcasing original 16-pane sash windows, along with one possibly secondary window. There is a 20th-century casement window with glazing bars at the ground floor left end. The main three-window section is symmetrical around the front doorway, which features a four-panel door with an over light and a flat-roofed porch supported by panelled posts and a moulded entablature that includes a modillion cornice. The main roof has deep eaves on shaped brackets and is gable-ended. The interior has not been inspected, but it is believed to retain original joinery and other details.
Local climate
The Old Manse receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2016
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