Higher Watchcombe Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 October 1984. A 16th Century Farmhouse.
Higher Watchcombe Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- stony-flagstone-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Honiton and Sidmouth MP: Richard Foord (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 October 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Period
- 16th Century
- Address
- Higher Watchcombe Farmhouse, Colyton
- OS grid reference
- SY 229 975
- Coordinates
- 50.77244, -3.09474
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Higher Watchcombe Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from around the 16th century. It is constructed of stone rubble and cob, topped with a tiled roof that has gabled ends and heightened eaves. The building is two storeys high and features a long, widely spaced three-window range. The windows are 19th-century casements with three, four, and six lights, all with glazing bars. There is a plank door located to the centre left, and to the right, a single-storey lean-to made of stone rubble. The farmhouse has two brick ridge stacks.
Inside, there is a timber plank screen leading to the cross passage, along with heavy stop-chamfered ceiling beams and a fireplace that has a stopped and chamfered bressummer. An attic doorway features an ogee cambered head, and the structure includes jointed cruck trusses. Originally, the house extended one bay to the left (southwest) into the hillside, where a dilapidated rubble fireplace can be found in the bank, along with a badly damaged moulded stone chimneypiece.
Local climate
Higher Watchcombe Farmhouse receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% 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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