Stucley House and Tossells House (Ae Kingdom Ltd and West of England Building Society) is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 October 1988. A Early C19 Commercial building. 6 related planning applications.
Stucley House and Tossells House (Ae Kingdom Ltd and West of England Building Society)
- WRENN ID
- lunar-roof-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 October 1988
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- Stucley House and Tossells House (Ae Kingdom Ltd and West of England Building Society), Fore Street, Chulmleigh, EX18 7BR
- OS grid reference
- SS 687 142
- Coordinates
- 50.91245, -3.8685
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Stucley House and Tossells House are two adjoining houses, potentially once occupied as a single unit, located in Fore Street, Chulmleigh. The building's front facade dates to the early 19th century, although the rear may incorporate older elements. The construction is primarily rendered stone rubble with some cob at the rear, and the roof is covered in bitumenized slate, hipped at one end.
The houses were designed with entrance passages on the left side of the front rooms. Originally, both passed through to rear courtyards, but a staircase has been inserted into the Stucley House courtyard. Tossells House is two rooms deep, with the front room serving as an office and heated by a gable-end stack, and a rear room heated by a lateral stack. The internal divisions of Stucley House’s front room have been removed, with the ground floor now used as a shop.
Both houses have rear ranges extending to create an overall L-shaped plan. The rear range of Tossells House includes a staircase in the front left corner and a kitchen at the rear, heated by a gable-end stack. The rear range of Stucley House, now used as offices and stores, was originally a kitchen with a storage room above, featuring two lateral stacks on the right-hand (rear) wall, one brick and the other capped. The rear ranges appear to be of 19th-century construction.
The front of the building is three storeys with a five-window range. The upper storey features 3-over-6 pane sash windows; the first floor has 12-pane sash windows. Stucley House has a late 19th or early 20th century shop window incorporating a second doorway at the left end, leading to the entrance passage and a six-panelled door with the upper four panels glazed. It has a dentil frieze to a plain entablature and pilasters. Tossells House presents a large shop window with pilasters and a window with four large panes, topped with a plain fascia. A five-panelled door sits to the left, its upper panels glazed.
Interior alterations were made in the 20th century, but some 19th-century joinery remains in the upper storeys, and C19 dado panelling can be found in the entrance passage of Tossells House.
Local climate
Stucley House and Tossells House (Ae Kingdom Ltd and West of England Building Society) sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 10 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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