Fordhayes is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 October 1984. A C17 Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Fordhayes
- WRENN ID
- former-copper-grove
- 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
- Fordhayes, Honiton Road, Kilmington, EX13 7DP
- OS grid reference
- SY 265 989
- Coordinates
- 50.7855, -3.04318
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fordhayes is a farmhouse, dating to around the 17th century, and possibly with earlier origins. The exterior is built of plastered stone rubble and cob, with a Welsh slate roof and gabled ends. The house has two storeys and a three-window front. It features 19th-century casement windows, with two and three panes per window. A central plank door is protected by a 20th-century gabled wooden porch. Brick chimney stacks are located at the gable ends. A stone rubble outbuilding stands at the lower, north end of the house, and a stone rubble wing at the rear forms an L-shaped plan. Inside, the ceilings have stopped and chamfered spine beams with run-out stops. A staircase features turned balusters, a moulded handrail, and a panelled dado. A fragment of 17th-century panelling is found in a first-floor room.
Local climate
Fordhayes 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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