Mount Wear House is a Grade II listed building in the Exeter local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1953. House. 10 related planning applications.
Mount Wear House
- WRENN ID
- lost-doorway-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Exeter
- Constituency
- Exeter MP: Steve Race (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 January 1953
- Type
- House
- Address
- Mount Wear House, 47, Countess Wear Road, EX2 6LR
- OS grid reference
- SX 941 898
- Coordinates
- 50.69846, -3.50054
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Mount Wear House is a late 17th-century brick house, originally L-shaped, with a plaster and stucco finish. The main garden front is two storeys with seven windows, and has gabled dormers above. This part of the house was altered in the 18th century and later. Modern casement windows are now in place. The roof is covered with slate and features a modillion cornice. Some two-inch bricks are visible beneath the plaster. Inside, the hall contains early 18th-century panelling, a staircase, and a cornice.
Local climate
Mount Wear 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 — 11 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 10 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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