Dinham House is a Grade II listed building in the Exeter local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 June 2000. House. 4 related planning applications.
Dinham House
- WRENN ID
- half-stone-jet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Exeter
- Constituency
- Exeter MP: Steve Race (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 June 2000
- Type
- House
- Address
- Dinham House, Mount Dinham, EX4 4EG
- OS grid reference
- SX 915 927
- Coordinates
- 50.72378, -3.53786
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dinham House, dating from around 1862, is associated with the Mount Dinham complex and may have served as the residence for the Church of St Michael’s incumbent. It was built for William Gibbs, although the architect remains unknown. The house is constructed of Flemish bond brick with painted stone dressings, and has a slate roof with red brick chimneyshafts featuring a brick band. It is built in a Tudor style.
The house is situated next to the church and at the southeast end of the school range, projecting forward to form a U-shaped layout with a matching building to the northeast. It is approximately rectangular, with a porch on the southwest side.
The exterior is two storeys high. It has coped gables with kneelers. The asymmetrical three-window front has the left-hand bay slightly projecting and gabled. The main block is set at right angles and is gabled at the right end. A projecting gabled porch is centrally placed, featuring a chamfered arched doorway with quoined jambs, a plank door with strap hinges, and small one-light windows on its returns. Other windows are two and three-light, with quoined jambs, chamfered architraves, and transoms. The right gable, which serves as the main façade, has a canted ground floor bay window with a hipped slate roof and ovolo-moulded frames and transom. A two-light first floor window is in a similar style with a square-headed hoodmould, and a small one-light window sits in the gable.
The interior has not been inspected but may contain features of interest.
Dinham House is part of an important Victorian group, planned and funded by William Gibbs of Tyntesfield, a wealthy merchant, philanthropist and patron of building. The complex includes Free Cottages for the elderly, a school, and the church, which contains Gibbs’ marble effigy. According to Greenaway, the site was previously undeveloped, purchased by John Dinham to prevent it from being used as a fairground. Dinham gifted the land to the city, upon which Gibbs built.
Local climate
Dinham 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.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2012
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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