Hembercombe West Hembercombe West and Tower View or Hembercombe Tower View or Hembercombe is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1989. House. 1 related planning application.
Hembercombe West Hembercombe West and Tower View or Hembercombe Tower View or Hembercombe
- WRENN ID
- winding-cornice-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Honiton and Sidmouth MP: Richard Foord (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1989
- Type
- House
- Address
- Hembercombe West Hembercombe West and Tower View or Hembercombe Tower View or Hembercombe, Broadhembury, EX14 3NJ
- OS grid reference
- ST 100 051
- Coordinates
- 50.83852, -3.27924
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hembercombe West and Tower View, also known as Hembercombe, is a house that has been divided into two estate cottages. It likely dates from the 18th century, with renovations from the 20th century. The building features creamwashed rendered cob and stone, topped with a thatched roof that has a plain ridge, hipped at the right end and gabled at the left end. There are axial and end stacks with modern brick shafts.
The plan is single depth, four rooms wide, with a rear center tiled outshut. Most of the partitions in Hembercombe East appear to be from the 20th century, while Hembercombe West was not inspected internally at the time of the survey in 1987.
The exterior is two storeys high with an asymmetrical window front, featuring a 2:3 arrangement, with Hembercombe West on the left and a buttress at the junction between the two cottages. There are gabled porches with segmental arched outer doorways and 19th or 20th century plank front doors. Hembercombe West has 2- and 3-light timber casements with glazing bars from the 19th or 20th century, while Hembercombe East has 20th century casements with square leaded panes.
Inside, Hembercombe East is largely modernized, with two roughly-finished exposed crossbeams, one of which is slightly chambered. The roof structure, though the apex was not inspected, likely dates from the 18th or 19th century, as the visible principal rafters in Hembercombe East are straight. This building is part of a group of small houses and cottages located on the lane to Broadhembury Common.
Local climate
Hembercombe West Hembercombe West and Tower View or Hembercombe Tower View or Hembercombe 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 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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- 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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