St Olave's Church House St Olave's Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Exeter local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1953. Church house. 1 related planning application.
St Olave's Church House St Olave's Rectory
- WRENN ID
- salt-tracery-pine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Exeter
- Constituency
- Exeter MP: Steve Race (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 January 1953
- Type
- Church house
- Address
- St Olave's Church House St Olave's Rectory, Mary Arches Street, EX4 3BA
- OS grid reference
- SX 917 925
- Coordinates
- 50.72236, -3.53514
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St Olave's Church House, also known as St Olave's Rectory, is a pair of adjoining three-storey, three-window stucco houses located on Mary Arches Street. They were built and occupied by James Golsworthy, who was the lessee of Exeter Waterworks from 1808 to 1833. The houses feature modillion cornices and sash windows with wooden architraves. There is a fascia with a serrated edge above the porches and verandahs, which continues along the first-floor level. The ground floor has an iron balustrade, and Church House includes a bow window on the ground floor. Inside, there is a notable top-lighted staircase set in a circular well. A tablet on the garden wall notes that the Waterworks were "contrived" in 1694 and improved by James Golsworthy in 1811, likely through the introduction of iron pipes, which were the first in England. The houses are set within an attractive walled garden.
Local climate
St Olave's Church House St Olave's Rectory 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2018
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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