Ashford House is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 November 1985. A Victorian Country house. 7 related planning applications.
Ashford House
- WRENN ID
- scattered-rotunda-bistre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 November 1985
- Type
- Country house
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Ashford House, EX31 4BW
- OS grid reference
- SS 526 350
- Coordinates
- 51.09554, -4.10556
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ashford House is a country house dating to around 1840. It is constructed of colourwashed stone with a hipped slate roof and a deep cornice. The house has a double-depth plan and two right-angled extensions to the rear, framing a large round-arched stair window. The facade is symmetrical. It is two storeys high, with three bays featuring panelled pilasters. Brick stacks with four pots are present at each gable end. The central doorway is topped by a rounded decorative fanlight, flanked by pilasters and a panelled door. There are three timber sash windows with eight panes each above the doorway, and two timber sash windows on each side, with two panes above four panes. A slatted verandah roof with a cornice, returned at the ends, runs the length of the facade and is supported by slender iron columns.
Local climate
Ashford House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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 — 1 transaction since 2017
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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