The Parsonage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 August 1965. Parsonage.

The Parsonage

WRENN ID
second-spire-jackdaw
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Devon
Constituency
Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 August 1965
Type
Parsonage
Address
The Parsonage, Church Street, Sandford
OS grid reference
SS 828 024
Coordinates
50.81012, -3.6637
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Parsonage is a parsonage built around 1800 to 1810. It features a pebble dash exterior on a rubble base, with rubble or brick stacks topped by early 19th-century brick chimney shafts, and has slate roofs. The building is L-shaped, with the main block facing north-east towards the church. Inside, there are four rooms in the main block, with two rooms on either side of a central stair and entrance hall, and axial stacks between each pair of rooms. A rear service block is located behind the right end of the main block.

This two-storey building is designed in a Georgian style and has a symmetrical five-window front. The central three-window section is slightly projected forward from the main block. The windows are 16-pane sashes, although the left end window on the ground floor and both right end windows are blocked. The front door is an eight-panel design with a semi-circular fanlight featuring radial glazing bars, panelled reveals, and a stucco architrave that is interrupted by rusticated blocks and a coadestone keystone with a bas-relief head. The building has deep eaves and a low-pitched roof that is hipped at each end. The right end wall has two windows, which are 16-pane sashes above casements with glazing bars. The rear elevation features main casements with glazing bars, and some original joinery and plasterwork can be found inside.

Local climate

The Parsonage 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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