The Old Estate Office is a Grade II listed building in the Teignbridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 December 1988. House. 1 related planning application.
The Old Estate Office
- WRENN ID
- blind-entrance-furze
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Teignbridge
- Constituency
- Newton Abbot MP: Martin Wrigley (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 December 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Estate Office, Kenton, EX6 8JE
- OS grid reference
- SX 965 831
- Coordinates
- 50.6384, -3.46498
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Estate Office is a house, originally serving as the Estate Office and Steward's House for the Powderham Estate. It’s believed to be from the 18th century, based on the style of the doorcase, although it may have been re-built in the early 19th century incorporating this original feature. The exterior is whitewashed and rendered, with a slate roof and gabled ends, featuring a stack at the left end and two axial stacks.
The building follows a single-depth plan, comprising three rooms, with a central entrance leading into a heated room housing the staircase. The front facade is asymmetrical with six bays and regular window placement. A two-leaf glazed front door is set within a doorcase that features reeded pilasters and a curved hood with a dentil cornice. The windows are closely-spaced, two-light timber casements with glazing bars, likely dating to the 19th or 20th century.
Inside, the joinery includes deeply-panelled doors and cupboards, and a staircase with diamond piercings in the plain splat balusters. Two reeded chimney-pieces remain, along with 19th-century grates, one of which was introduced from another location.
The building has group value with Polruan, which adjoins it to the right, and the thatched houses situated on the opposite side of the road.
Local climate
The Old Estate Office receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 9 transactions since 1995
- 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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