Homelea is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 February 1977. House. 2 related planning applications.
Homelea
- WRENN ID
- roaming-flint-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 February 1977
- Type
- House
- Address
- Homelea, the Square, Dolton, EX19 8QF
- OS grid reference
- SS 570 121
- Coordinates
- 50.89077, -4.03446
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Homelea is a small house dating from the early 18th century, with an addition from the 19th century. It is constructed of rendered cob walls, and features a thatched gable-ended roof with two brick gable end stacks, the left-hand one being a projecting rendered stack. The original plan comprised two rooms with a central stairhall, the outer rooms being heated by gable end fireplaces. A 19th-century rear outshut has been added, and a small, likely contemporary, outbuilding projects from the right-hand end of the house.
The front of the house presents a symmetrical three-window facade. The upper floor has late 19th-century six-pane sashes, while the ground floor has an early 19th-century gabled porch sheltering a six-panel door. The thatched roof of the projecting outbuilding is visible from the front. Inside, the fireplaces in both rooms have rough wooden lintels, and the right-hand room contains a clom oven. A small, original two-light square section wooden mullion window is located in the rear wall of the left-hand room. The barn features straight principal rafters with curved collars halved on.
The property is accompanied by a low garden wall in front of the house, topped with 19th-century iron railings. The railings have posts with decorative finials and ironwork to the gate.
Local climate
Homelea sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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 — 3 transactions since 2013
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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