Challis House is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 March 1988. House. 1 related planning application.
Challis House
- WRENN ID
- secret-iron-aspen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Devon
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 March 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Challis House, 10, Lower Town, Sampford Peverell, EX16 7BL
- OS grid reference
- ST 030 142
- Coordinates
- 50.91938, -3.38012
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Challis House is an early 19th-century house located in Sampford Peverell. It is constructed from plastered stone rubble, with stone rubble or brick stacks topped with 19th-century brick, and features a slate roof. The house has a double depth plan and faces southeast onto the road. Inside, there is a central entrance hall and staircase, with a front and back room on either side. The rooms are heated by gable-end stacks.
The exterior is symmetrical with a three-window front centered around a doorway that features a four-panel door, an overlight, panelled reveals, and a doorcase with a moulded entablature. Above the door is a 12-pane sash window, while the outer bays have 16-pane sashes. The front plaster is lightly incised to resemble ashlar, and the house has plain deep eaves with a gable-ended roof. The interior has not been inspected, but it is believed to contain a significant amount of original joinery and other details.
Local climate
Challis House receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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
- No sale records on file
- 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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