Warfleet House is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 October 1972. House. 3 related planning applications.

Warfleet House

WRENN ID
sharp-rotunda-elder
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Hams
Constituency
South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 October 1972
Type
House
Address
Warfleet House, Warfleet Road, Dartmouth, TQ6 9BZ
OS grid reference
SX 880 504
Coordinates
50.34326, -3.57406
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Warfleet House is a house, likely dating to the 1860s and 1880s, originally a single dwelling now divided into separate properties. It is built of painted stone rubble with Bathstone dressings, with lateral and rear stacks featuring plastered brick chimney shafts and some old pots, and a slate roof with crested ridge tiles. The house is in a Victorian Gothic style.

The front façade is an irregular two-storey arrangement with attics, featuring a 1:2-window arrangement. The left bay has a ground-floor canted bay window with transomed, arch-headed windows containing cusped early-Decorated tracery, each with a gable and stone waterspouts. The first floor has a mullion-and-transom window with trefoil-headed lights, a floating cornice, and a trefoil light to the gable. To the right of the ground floor is a row of four transomed lancets; a floating cornice sits above with a higher central section. Above this sits a first-floor lancet and a three-light window, all with cranked-arch heads. Similar details are present on the side walls, including another canted bay at the right. The porch is square at ground-floor level, with broaches to the canted first-floor corners. The outer wall of the porch has a pair of large, square-headed windows with leaded glass, and above, a quatrefoil panel containing a shield. Lancets flank the corners. The front doorway has a chamfered, cranked arch with a moulded surround, leading to a top-glazed door with margin glazing and bottom panels carved with ornament in a 17th-century style, including linenfold, tracery, and cartouches. Polychrome tiles are laid in front of the doorway, and the porch is topped with a squat spire and cast-iron finial. The rear blocks contain a variety of 19th-century windows, including casements and some sash windows with glazing bars.

The interior features a good entrance lobby lined with 17th-century-style oak panelling enriched with linenfold, cartouches, and tracery, with scrolled vines carved around the windows. The left parlour has an ornate marble chimneypiece. A large, open-well stair has a relatively plain style. The right-hand front room contains large 17th-century-style beams, though the chimney piece was introduced later. An adjacent billiard room is now a separate property.

Local climate

Warfleet House receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 2 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows 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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