Little Combe Lancey is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1985. Farmhouse. 4 related planning applications.
Little Combe Lancey
- WRENN ID
- silent-screen-ebony
- 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
- Address
- Little Combe Lancey, Sandford, EX17 4EA
- OS grid reference
- SS 821 016
- Coordinates
- 50.80212, -3.67351
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Little Combe Lancey is a farmhouse that has been converted into two cottages and is now a single house. It likely has a core dating back to the 16th century, with improvements made in the 17th century. The building was divided in the 19th century, then reunited and modernized in the mid-20th century. It features plastered cob on rubble footings, with rubble or cob stacks topped with 20th-century brick and a thatched roof.
The house is a much-altered three-room-and-through-passage structure facing west, with a service room at the left (north) end. There is a 20th-century slate-roofed extension to the inner room. The building has end stacks for the service and inner rooms, as well as an axial hall stack that backs onto the former passage. The front has an irregular arrangement of five windows, which are all 20th-century casements. The door at the right end of the main house leads to the former inner room, situated behind a 20th-century porch. There is a central window to the left that blocks the former passage door. The roof is gable-ended.
Inside, there are exposed 17th-century features, including a chamfered crossbeam in the hall with unusual facetted stops, and in the service room, a chamfered crossbeam with straight cut stops along with the remains of a massive kitchen fireplace that has a chamfered oak lintel. The roof is currently inaccessible.
Local climate
Little Combe Lancey 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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