Countess Wear House is a Grade II listed building in the Exeter local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 June 1974. House. 8 related planning applications.
Countess Wear House
- WRENN ID
- old-pediment-primrose
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Exeter
- Constituency
- Exeter MP: Steve Race (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 June 1974
- Type
- House
- Address
- Countess Wear House, 59, Countess Wear Road, EX2 6LR
- OS grid reference
- SX 941 897
- Coordinates
- 50.69792, -3.49962
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a three-storey red brick house located on Countess Wear Road. It was built around 1770, but significantly altered in the Queen Anne style in 1889, resulting in a loss of much of its original character. The house has a modillion cornice and lunette windows at the rear. It features stone quoins and painted keystones. The entrance is of a Jacobean Baroque design, incorporating a clock above the doorway, while curved screen walls are present with piers and ball finials. Venetian windows are also a feature. Other external details include a sundial and a hipped slate roof. Inside, one fireplace is of Rococo design.
Local climate
Countess 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 — 8 transactions since 2005
- Related listed building consents — 8 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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