Retreat House is a Grade II listed building in the Exeter local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 June 1974. House. 2 related planning applications.
Retreat House
- WRENN ID
- grim-cornice-peregrine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Exeter
- Constituency
- Exmouth and Exeter East MP: David Reed (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 June 1974
- Type
- House
- Address
- Retreat House, 11, Monmouth Hill, EX3 0JF
- OS grid reference
- SX 966 877
- Coordinates
- 50.68033, -3.4635
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Retreat House is an L-shaped, two-storey house located on Monmouth Hill in Topsham, likely built around 1700. It features late Georgian stucco and has an eaves cornice, round window heads in lead with an oak-leaf design, and rusticated quoins. There is a Tuscan porch at the angle of the building and three-light sash windows. A bay window is present on the gable end of the second floor. Inside, the house includes some panelling and a 19th-century staircase. All the listed buildings on Monmouth Hill are part of a group.
Local climate
Retreat 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2020
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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