Higher Woolsgrove Including Adjoining Summerhouse and Cob Garden Walls to South West is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 August 1965. House. 3 related planning applications.

Higher Woolsgrove Including Adjoining Summerhouse and Cob Garden Walls to South West

WRENN ID
gentle-sandstone-auburn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Devon
Constituency
Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 August 1965
Type
House
Address
Higher Woolsgrove Including Adjoining Summerhouse and Cob Garden Walls to South West, EX17 4PJ
OS grid reference
SS 792 029
Coordinates
50.8135, -3.71465
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Higher Woolsgrove is a house that may date back to the 17th century or earlier, but it was heavily remodeled in the late 19th century. The structure features plastered cob on rubble footings, with rubble stacks topped with 19th-century brick, and has a thatched roof. It is an L-shaped building with a three-room main block facing southwest and a rear kitchen wing at the right end, adjacent to the road. The house has two storeys and a vaguely symmetrical three-window front.

On the ground floor, there are three late 19th-century French windows with panelled lower sections, and the main door is located to the right of centre. This door features two long panels and an overlight with glazing bars, framed by a plain door case that has oak and acorn motifs in the top corners. There is also a door to a store at the left end. A glass-roofed verandah spans the front of the house, supported by pairs of circular cast iron shafts with simply shaped wooden spandrels, and there is simple crestwork over the roof against the wall.

The first-floor casements are topped with thatched gables that include shaped bargeboards. Although the layout suggests an earlier core, no earlier features are visible inside, which mainly showcases late 19th-century elements.

To the left of the front, a plastered cob wall on rubble footings with a pitched thatched roof serves as the northwest garden wall. Near the house, this wall breaks to the northwest, where it includes a small late 19th-century summerhouse with a conical thatched roof supported by rustic timber posts. The walls and spandrels of the arched doorway to the summerhouse are filled with trelliswork. Another similar high cob wall extends southwest from the right end of the house, separating the garden from the road.

Local climate

Higher Woolsgrove Including Adjoining Summerhouse and Cob Garden Walls to South West 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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