Wear House (Exeter Country Club) is a Grade II* listed building in the Exeter local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1953. Mansion. 6 related planning applications.
Wear House (Exeter Country Club)
- WRENN ID
- tall-vault-barley
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Exeter
- Constituency
- Exmouth and Exeter East MP: David Reed (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 January 1953
- Type
- Mansion
- Address
- Wear House (Exeter Country Club), Topsham Road, EX2 7AE
- OS grid reference
- SX 950 899
- Coordinates
- 50.69932, -3.48779
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wear House, also known as Exeter Country Club, is a 19th-century stucco mansion, likely built by Sir John Duckworth after he acquired the property in 1804. The building features a three-storey central block with seven windows and two-storey side wings with two windows each. The front of the house includes a Doric portico with a driveway beneath it, while the garden side showcases a three-bay Ionic portico. There is also a brick stable court that includes a weatherboarded clock tower topped with an octagonal cupola.
Inside, the mansion boasts a fine double stone staircase with an iron balustrade. The Entrance Hall, which is in the Doric order, has been divided by a glazed screen.
Local climate
Wear House (Exeter Country Club) receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% 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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- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
- 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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