Lower Week Including Summer House Adjoining to South West is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 December 1986. House. 2 related planning applications.
Lower Week Including Summer House Adjoining to South West
- WRENN ID
- first-copper-juniper
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Devon
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 December 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Lower Week Including Summer House Adjoining to South West, EX17 6DN
- OS grid reference
- SS 731 045
- Coordinates
- 50.82655, -3.8031
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lower Week is a house, formerly a farmhouse, likely built in the 18th century, with an early or mid-19th century summerhouse and 20th century additions. The structure is made of plastered cob and stone rubble, with one chimney stack of exposed stone rubble and another that is plastered, both topped with 20th century brick. The roof is thatched, with slate and felt used for the 20th century extensions.
The house has a two-room layout facing southeast, with each room featuring a projecting end stack. There is a 20th century service extension on the right (northeast) end and a two-storey kitchen extension at the back of the left room. The attached summerhouse, dating from the 19th century, is located at the left front corner.
The main house has an irregular front with three windows, featuring 19th century three-light casements with glazing bars on the first floor and 20th century two-light casements without glazing bars on the ground floor, along with a fourth similar window on the right service extension. The front door is from the 20th century but includes a panel of small panes of coloured Victorian leaded glass and is sheltered by a 20th century gabled porch with a slate roof. The main roof is gable-ended. To the left of the front, the small cob and rubble summerhouse has a conical roof and a full-height doorway at the front. The interior was not available for inspection at the time of the survey.
Local climate
Lower Week Including Summer House Adjoining to South West receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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 2002
- 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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