Oakford Manor and Spurway Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 December 1987. House, cottage. 1 related planning application.

Oakford Manor and Spurway Cottage

WRENN ID
errant-string-flax
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Devon
Constituency
Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
7 December 1987
Type
House, cottage
Address
Oakford Manor and Spurway Cottage, Rookery Hill, EX16 9ET
OS grid reference
SS 909 212
Coordinates
50.98029, -3.55453
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Oakford Manor and Spurway Cottage are likely from the 17th century, with alterations in the early 18th century and remodelling around the early 19th century. The main house is probably built of cob and stone rubble with whitewashed and rendered surfaces and has a 2-span hipped slate roof with deep eaves. The adjoining wing, Spurway Cottage, has a lower roofline and is hipped at one end. There are axial and right-end stacks. The main block is rectangular and double-depth, with a central entrance leading into a stair hall. Spurway Cottage is a lower wing attached to the right.

The front of the main block is symmetrical, with three bays and an attached two-window wing. The central entrance has a fine early 19th-century glazed porch with a cornice, a two-leaf half-glazed door with Gothic arched lights and stained glass. Above the porch is a double-hung sash window with glazing bars and margin glazing. The outer bays have tripartite sash windows with glazing bars. Spurway Cottage faces in a different direction; it has an outshut at the rear with two windows. The left return of the main block has a two-bay garden elevation with glazed garden doors on the ground floor and a verandah supported by posts. First-floor windows are tripartite timber sashes.

The interior was not inspected, but it is said to retain an early 18th-century staircase, and other features of interest may remain. The Spurway family has been associated with Oakford parish and a manorial title for over 700 years.

Local climate

Oakford Manor and Spurway Cottage receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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  • Sale history — 3 transactions since 1996
  • 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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