Mount Trequites

Exwick House

St Andrews Church

Exwick has its fair share of listed buildings, most of them within the Conservation Area. In Station Road, St Andrew's Church, the parish church is listed Grade II. The church is situated where Exwick Road meets St Andrews Road, at their junction with Station Road. It was designed by John Hayward, a leading local architect who also designed the Royal Albert Memorial Museum and St Luke's College in Exeter, as well as other fine buildings such as the Victoria College in St Helier, Jersey. It is built in local red stone in the Victorian gothic style. Just off St Andrews Road there is Exwick Court which has two buildings which are also listed Grade II: Exwick House and 6 Exe View Cottages.

6 Exe View Cottages

Exwick Hill is easy to miss as you go through Exwick - it leads uphill by the octagonal black and white building near the Village Inn - but in Exwick Hill there are a further five listed buildings: 1, 2 and 4 Hermitage Cottages and 20 and 22 Exwick Hill. No. 20 is called 'The Hermitage' and (according to Royal Mail) is actually two residential properties - North Wing and South Wing. The South Wing of The Hermitage was for sale as a 'Character Grade II Listed Thatched Cottage' in local Estate Agents' listings for years - I even saw it mentioned in the property section of a national paper once. It's now been rethatched and is currently for sale again with Palmer Collins.

Hermitage Cottages

Further along Exwick Road, but still in Exwick Ward, what was once Redhills Hospital is listed Grade II. Redhills Hospital was originally the St Thomas workhouse for St Thomas Poor Law Union. The building was designed by Sampson Kempthorne and built in 1836, later became Redhills Hospital and has now been converted into flats. There are more details about the workhouse at Peter Higginbotham's excellent website about workhouses - the page for St Thomas can be found here.

Cleve House

The Hermitage

The final listed building in Exwick is Cleve House, listed Grade II*. There are various spellings for Cleve House - Cleeve and Cleave are sometimes used, but Cleve is what it says on the current maps. Cleve House was for many years the local headquarters for the charity 'Guide Dogs For the Blind Association', who had kennels in the grounds, and it used to be quite common to see the dog trainers around Exeter. The building dates back to the 17th century and there is a picture of the house on Exeter City Council's TimeTrail website here and pictures of the plaster ceiling of the interior here, here and here.