Glebe House is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 October 1987. House. 4 related planning applications.
Glebe House
- WRENN ID
- first-rotunda-bramble
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Devon
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 October 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Glebe House, Exbourne, EX20 3RD
- OS grid reference
- SS 594 015
- Coordinates
- 50.79613, -3.99504
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Glebe House is a house, originally a rectory, dating from around 1840 to 1850. It is built of plastered stone with a gable ended slate roof. There are four plastered gable stacks with tall 20th-century brick shafts, and one axial stack. The plan is double depth, including a service wing to the left. The layout features a central entrance passage with two principal rooms overlooking the garden, and smaller rooms to the left, extending to a small service wing.
The asymmetrical three-window entrance front has two large gables and a smaller one in between. The left-hand gable has an original two-light sash window with a square hoodmould, a similar window to its right, and a three-light window below. A central gabled porch features diagonal buttresses and a four-centred arched doorway with a panelled door. A recessed service wing on the left-hand end has a similar two-light window, without a hoodmould. The garden front is symmetrical with three windows, with the central section projecting slightly. The upper floor windows are two-light sashes, while the ground floor has canted four-light bay windows. The original glazed door, with gothic tracery, a square fanlight, and a hoodmould, is centrally positioned.
The interior appears largely complete, with the two principal rooms retaining original fireplaces featuring four-centre arched lintels and columns either side. Original joinery is likely to survive.
Local climate
Glebe House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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 — 4 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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