Tolcis House is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 June 1983. Hall house. 1 related planning application.
Tolcis House
- WRENN ID
- floating-buttress-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Honiton and Sidmouth MP: Richard Foord (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 June 1983
- Type
- Hall house
- Address
- Tolcis House, Axminster, EX13 7JF
- OS grid reference
- ST 277 007
- Coordinates
- 50.80153, -3.02682
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tolcis House is a hall house dating from the 15th or 16th century, which has been floored and altered over time. It is constructed of coursed stone and features a slate roof with gabled ends. The building has two storeys and a three-window range. There are 19th-century sash windows and a doorway on the right side, along with a modern conservatory. To the east, there is a late 19th-century roughcast gabled wing. The house has brick ridge chimney stacks.
Inside, the central hall has three jointed cruck trusses and is now floored. The centre room on the ground floor boasts heavily moulded ceiling beams and a chamfered wooden fireplace bressummer. Additionally, there is a heavy chamfered ceiling beam in the southwest end.
Local climate
Tolcis 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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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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