Heavitree Social Centre is a Grade II listed building in the Exeter local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 June 2000. Social centre.
Heavitree Social Centre
- WRENN ID
- keen-arch-lake
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Exeter
- Constituency
- Exeter MP: Steve Race (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 June 2000
- Type
- Social centre
- Address
- Heavitree Social Centre, 2, East Wonford Hill
- OS grid reference
- SX 943 922
- Coordinates
- 50.72066, -3.49801
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Heavitree Social Centre is a large house that has been converted into a local social centre. It dates from the late 1820s and has undergone some alterations over the years. Originally known as Wingfield Park and later 'The Knoll', the building features mass wall construction that is stuccoed and blocked out, topped with a hipped slate roof. It has red brick chimney shafts with decorative bands and round tapering terracotta chimney pots, along with Greek architectural details on the front.
The building has an asymmetrical plan, with the main entrance located on the west side. The prominent north garden front is notable, and the rooms are heated by axial and front lateral chimney stacks. The exterior consists of two storeys with deep boxed eaves supported by paired brackets. The symmetrical three-bay north front has an eaves band and clasping pilasters with sunk panels on either side of the central bay. The outer ground floor features 16-pane sash windows framed by pilasters with sunk panels and anthemion, topped with stucco pediments. There is a blind recess in the centre with a small later window inserted, and the first floor also has 16-pane sashes.
The entrance elevation is asymmetrical and positioned at right angles to the road, featuring a three-sided porch that connects to a rear wing. The porch has a slate roof that extends as a pentice on slender columns, and it includes a two-panel recessed door within a timber doorcase, flanked by small-pane windows. Canted bay windows, which have been reglazed, are located to the left and right of the porch, and some first-floor windows are hornless sashes.
Inside, there is a dog leg staircase with a wreathed handrail and square moulded balusters. Historically, this house is situated in the former Heavitree Park, which was established on land leased to Edward Eardley, a china merchant from Exeter. The lease stipulated that he build houses and out-buildings of brick and stone, rather than cob, and by 1829 he had constructed five houses in the area, including this one.
Local climate
Heavitree Social Centre 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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