Frayne House is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 November 1988. House. 3 related planning applications.
Frayne House
- WRENN ID
- wild-span-crimson
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 November 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Frayne House, East Street, North Molton, EX36 3HT
- OS grid reference
- SS 740 297
- Coordinates
- 51.05286, -3.79824
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Frayne House is a house dating from the early 18th century, with significant remodelling and enlargement in the mid to late 19th century. It is constructed of rendered walls, likely over a stone rubble core, and has a gable-ended scantle-slate roof. The front features a wooden eaves cornice with widely-spaced paired dentils, and 19th-century red-brick stacks with chamfered corners and corbelled caps.
The building follows an L-shaped plan, comprising an early 19th-century three-room range parallel to the road (facing north), with external end stacks, and a wing to the rear of the right-hand end, containing an integral lateral stack. The staircase is located in the rear wing, behind the right-hand room. Later 19th-century alterations include the addition of bay windows and a porch. A short, single-storey wing extends from the rear of the left-hand end.
The front is asymmetrical with four bays. It has 19th-century margin-light sashes with cills. Two mid to late 19th-century flat-roofed square bays are located on the ground floor; the bay to the left has 2:3:2 lights and the one to the right has 3:5:3 lights. A mid to late 19th-century five-panelled door is set in the second bay from the right, featuring beaded-flush lower panels, a central moulded panel with a raised centre, and two leaded glazed moulded upper panels. The door is protected by a moulded architrave and a wooden Tuscan porch with two columns, pilasters to the rear, a frieze, cornice, and a panelled soffit. A 12-pane glazing bar sash window in the rear wing illuminates the staircase. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Frayne House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,070 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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 — 2 transactions since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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