Winsland House is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 July 1987. House. 1 related planning application.
Winsland House
- WRENN ID
- fallen-trefoil-smoke
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Hams
- Constituency
- South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 July 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Winsland House, Harberton, TQ9 6DJ
- OS grid reference
- SX 782 607
- Coordinates
- 50.43432, -3.71551
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Winsland House is a small country house dating from approximately 1830 to 1840. It is constructed of stuccoed stone rubble with ashlar joint lining on the stucco. The roof is low-pitched slate with lead rolls to the hips, and deep eaves featuring paired brackets to the soffits. Axial and end stacks are stuccoed, with paired octagonal shafts incorporating moulded bases and caps.
The asymmetrical east entrance front has a doorway near the centre, leading to a stairhall with service rooms extending to the north and principal rooms to the left. The south garden front is symmetrical, with six windows and a central blind bay. The ground floor features French casements with margin panes and intersecting tracery in semi-circular fanlights, while the first floor has 12-pane sashes.
Across the south front and around the east return is a tented-roof verandah, originally supported by slender iron columns with vertical and spiral timber battens for climbing plants, but now with a weatherboarded roof. A screen wall extends to the left of the south facade, featuring battlements at the eaves and two octagonal finials with moulded caps and bases.
The east entrance front includes a round-headed sash window on the ground floor with glazing bars and a 12-pane sash above, as well as a projecting chimney breast. The recessed centre features a doorway with a moulded architrave, fielded and reeded panel reveals, and a glazed door with reed bottom panels. The verandah continues around this front to form a porch with an iron balustrade and wide stone steps.
The central stairhall contains an early 19th-century staircase with turned balusters and a wreathed handrail. Interior joinery, plaster mouldings, and possibly original fireplaces are reportedly intact.
Local climate
Winsland House receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 6 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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 2017
- 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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