Denbury House is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1967. Residential. 1 related planning application.

Denbury House

WRENN ID
dim-rubble-raven
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Hams
Constituency
South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 January 1967
Type
Residential
Address
Denbury House, 16, Church Street, Modbury, PL21 0QP
OS grid reference
SX 657 516
Coordinates
50.34914, -3.88899
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Denbury House is a house located in a row on Church Street in Modbury, dating from the late 18th century and mid 19th century. The left half of the building is rendered and scribed to resemble ashlar, while the right half is constructed of painted brickwork, both topped with slate roofs.

The left side features three storeys with two windows. The ground and first floors have tripartite sashes with 8:12:8 panes, while the remaining windows are small 12-pane sashes. On the right side, there is a six-panel door with a fanlight set within a lofty fluted 'Egyptian' column doorcase, topped by a dentilled entablature and segmental pediment, all on a single stone step. The building has a stepped plinth.

At the back, there are sashes in slate hanging and a large brick stack partway up the roof slope. The right side of the house has two and a half storeys with two windows, featuring 12-pane sashes in moulded architraves and segmental relieving arches on the ground and first floors. Half-dormers with 12-pane sashes are present at the eaves. The roof, which is separate from the left half, is swept out at the eaves over three sections of moulded cornice. The ground floor windows are set low to the pavement level, and there is a deep wing with a large external stack.

Local climate

Denbury House receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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