Edburys is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1985. A C16 Farmhouse, forge.
Edburys
- WRENN ID
- fading-ledge-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Devon
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 May 1985
- Type
- Farmhouse, forge
- Address
- Edburys, Crediton Hamlets
- OS grid reference
- SX 825 985
- Coordinates
- 50.77488, -3.66705
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Edburys is a farmhouse and forge that has been converted into a single house. It likely dates from the 16th century but has undergone significant alterations in the 19th and 20th centuries. The building is constructed of plastered cob on rubble, with stone and brick stacks and a slate roof, which was originally thatch. The layout is a much-altered three-room-and-through-passage plan, with the inner room located to the west (left of the south front). There is a large lateral stack at the rear of the hall and a gable-end stack at the service end, which used to serve the 19th-century forge added to that end.
The main block is gable-ended and consists of two storeys, with a lower extension (now also two storeys) to the right that has a half-hipped roof. The overall front features five windows. The passage door is positioned to the right of the centre, with the hall and inner room to the left, which are slightly projected forward. The main block's windows are 19th and 20th-century wooden two-light casements with glazing bars, including a horizontal-sliding sash with nine small panes at the left end. The forge extension has a secondary door located behind a 20th-century glass-sided porch and a reset 17th-century oak two-light window with a chamfered mullion above it. At the rear, facing the road, there is another 17th-century window with three lights and ovolo moulded mullions, which has been reset in the former forge doorway.
The interior was rearranged in the 19th century, with the stair blocking the rear of the through passage, but part of an oak plank-and-muntin screen remains exposed on the hall side of the passage, along with one volcanic ashlar jamb of a large hall fireplace. The roof has not been inspected. The building was formerly known as Hope Cottage.
Local climate
Edburys receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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