Wixenford Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Plymouth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 May 1975. House.
Wixenford Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- last-footing-onyx
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Plymouth
- Constituency
- South West Devon MP: Rebecca Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 May 1975
- Type
- House
- Address
- Wixenford Farmhouse, 1-4, Colesdown Hill, City of Plymouth
- OS grid reference
- SX 521 544
- Coordinates
- 50.37099, -4.08014
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wixenford Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 17th century, with an extension added in the 18th century. It is built of local rubble, with the front rendered, and features steep slate roofs. The taller main roof has two gabled dormers over the eaves, flanking a raking dormer. There are large 17th-century rubble end stacks, a rendered brick stack on the far right, and a 17th-century rendered stack with a ramped top at the rear gable of the rear wing. The original layout included a two-room through-passage plan along with a rear parlour or service wing, which was extended on the right in the 18th century. The building has two storeys plus an attic that was converted from the original roof space, and it has an irregular four-window range. The 20th-century windows have glazing bars, and there is a large gabled porch centrally located on the original part of the house. The interior features some chamfered ceiling beams.
Local climate
Wixenford Farmhouse 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 77% 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 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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