Burdon Grange is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1967. Manor house. 1 related planning application.
Burdon Grange
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-cloister-willow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Devon
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1967
- Type
- Manor house
- Address
- Burdon Grange, Highampton, EX21 5LX
- OS grid reference
- SS 477 032
- Coordinates
- 50.80905, -4.16169
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Burdon Grange is a manor house currently used as a residential home. It dates from the late 16th century, with an early 19th-century addition and extensive 20th-century extensions. The building features partly rendered stone rubble walls and a hipped slate roof, along with two brick axial stacks, one of which is rendered.
The plan of the house has evolved significantly, with the original layout not entirely clear, although the oldest parts are the two parallel rear wings. The early 19th-century front block, which consists of two rooms, likely replaced an earlier range and may indicate that the house was turned to face a different direction at that time. The rear includes various additions, including converted outbuildings and later 20th-century extensions. The internal room arrangement has been considerably altered in the late 20th century.
On the exterior, the early 19th-century front block has two windows, with the left side projecting and featuring a large early 19th-century 16-pane sash window on the ground floor and a later facsimile above. There is a 19th-century six-panel door at the center, flanked by large 16-pane sashes and a three-pane sash above. A 20th-century porch has been added to the left side of the 19th-century block. The two earlier wings extend parallel to the rear, each with a four-light granite mullion window with square hoodmoulds on the ground floor; the right-hand window bears the initials R.B., A.B., and the date 1596 carved into its labels. Between the ends of the two wings is a tall rubble wall that encloses a rear courtyard, featuring a granite two-centred hollow and roll-moulded arch at the center. Projecting from the side of the right-hand wing is a converted stable range, which has a further 20th-century addition at its rear.
Inside, some late 16th-century or early 17th-century panelling survives in the left-hand wing, and the left-hand room of the 19th-century range has a plaster ceiling band with a running foliage design.
Local climate
Burdon Grange sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2005
- 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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