Delamore House is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 February 1984. Country house. 1 related planning application.
Delamore House
- WRENN ID
- shifting-sandstone-flax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dartmoor National Park
- Constituency
- South West Devon MP: Rebecca Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 February 1984
- Type
- Country house
- Address
- Delamore House, Cornwood, South Hams, PL21 9QT
- OS grid reference
- SX 600 599
- Coordinates
- 50.42243, -3.97104
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Delamore House is a large country house set in its own park, built in 1859 by J P St Aubyn for Admiral George Parker. It is designed in the Gothic style and constructed from granite ashlar. The house features a steeply pitched gabled slate roof and has two storeys plus an attic.
The entrance front, facing north, is asymmetrical. The left side projects with a buttressed corner and two asymmetrical gables, with an oriel window in between. To the right, there is a large four-light traceried stair window, and to the left, two smaller traceried windows, all showcasing geometric tracery. The entrance includes a two-centred arch doorway adorned with a shield, the monogram AFP, and the date 1859 in the tympanum. The centre of the facade is recessed, featuring straight-headed stone mullion windows and dormers.
On the right side, there is a three-storey porch with corner buttresses, set-offs, and ogee head lights on the top storey window, topped with a finial. Lower service wings extend at right angles to the right side of the house. The south garden front is symmetrical, consisting of five bays, with gabled projections on the left and right, a central gable, and two-storey canted bays. Large granite chimneystacks with weathering are also prominent features of the house.
Local climate
Delamore House receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% 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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