Primrose House is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 October 1972. Villa. 1 related planning application.
Primrose House
- WRENN ID
- knotted-beam-jet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Hams
- Constituency
- South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 October 1972
- Type
- Villa
- Address
- Primrose House, 24, Coombe Road, Dartmouth, TQ6 9PQ
- OS grid reference
- SX 878 519
- Coordinates
- 50.35635, -3.578
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Primrose House is a villa, built around 1850 as one of a group of three. The exterior is stucco applied to a stone rubble core, with brick chimney shafts and a slate roof. It has a plan in the shape of an 'L', with a two-room front block and a two-room service wing set at a right angle to the rear.
The front of the house is symmetrical, with two windows on each floor. A six-bay verandah extends across the ground floor, supported by plain posts and topped with a part-glazed, part-slated roof. Behind the verandah are French windows with glazing bars. The first floor has sash windows without glazing bars, set within segmental arch heads and eared stucco architraves. The stucco is designed to resemble ashlar, with vermiculated rustication to the quoins on each end. The eaves are supported by timber brackets. A round-headed side doorway has a stucco hood and leads to a panelled door with a fanlight and side lights filled with leaded stained glass; the doorway is flanked by Victorian tiles to the floor.
The interior retains original features, including decorative chimney pieces, moulded plaster cornices and a staircase.
Local climate
Primrose House receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% 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 0.2°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 — 3 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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