Harringcourt House is a Grade II listed building in the Exeter local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 June 2000. House. 7 related planning applications.
Harringcourt House
- WRENN ID
- woven-wall-starling
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Exeter
- Constituency
- Exmouth and Exeter East MP: David Reed (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 June 2000
- Type
- House
- Address
- Harringcourt House, 18, Harrington Lane, EX4 8PG
- OS grid reference
- SX 960 944
- Coordinates
- 50.74076, -3.4742
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Harringcourt House is a large house, likely dating back to the 16th or 17th century, with significant alterations from the early 18th century and later additions. The house is constructed with mass walls, featuring a mix of painted render and exposed painted stone rubble. It has a hipped slate roof, red brick chimney shafts with bands, and some remaining round, tapering terracotta chimney pots. Cast iron rainwater goods are also present.
The house is situated at a right angle to the road. The original layout may have consisted of three rooms and a cross passage, with the lower end and middle room heated by projecting lateral stacks. The front elevation is asymmetrical with five windows. It features a projecting open porch with octagonal columns and an entablature featuring a dentil frieze. A six-panel door with the top two panes glazed is located within the porch. A single light window with coloured glass is positioned to the right of the porch. A more recent 20th-century half-glazed door is situated to the right of centre, alongside a two-light casement window. A hornless sash window with 16 panes, dating from around 1800, is found on the first floor to the left of the porch, alongside a smaller horned sash window. Three two-light casement windows with small panes are spaced at the first floor level to the left of centre. A skylight is present in the roof.
The left return and garden elevation exhibits an early 18th-century coved eaves cornice and primarily narrow, three-light tripartite sash windows which lack horns or glazing bars. One window, located to the right of centre on this elevation, is a hornless sash with vertical margin panes.
The interior was not inspected, but it is likely to retain features of interest and the roof construction may be early.
Local climate
Harringcourt House 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2008
- Related listed building consents — 7 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings