Cook's Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 November 1952. Farmhouse.
Cook's Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- empty-trefoil-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Exmouth and Exeter East MP: David Reed (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 November 1952
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Cook's Farmhouse, Woodbury
- OS grid reference
- SY 012 887
- Coordinates
- 50.68965, -3.39895
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cook's Farmhouse is a farmhouse that may date back to the 17th century but was completely remodeled and possibly rebuilt in the 19th century. It features plastered cob on stone footings, with some brick patching, and has a gabled-end roof covered with asbestos tiles. The original layout was a three-room through-passage plan with a rear wing attached to the inner room. There is a rear lateral external stack made of brick that appears to have been entirely rebuilt in the 19th century, while an external cob end stack for the rear wing is no longer visible. A lateral external stack for the rear wing likely replaced the end stack. There is also a stair turret located at the angle formed by the main range and the rear wing, along with a 19th-century brick lean-to at the back. The farmhouse has two storeys and a front elevation with a five-window range, featuring mostly 19th-century two- and three-light casement windows. A brick porch with a pantiled roof leads to the passage entrance. The rear has 19th-century three-light casement windows and another two-light window for the turret. The interior was not inspected, and the house was unoccupied during the resurvey visit in July 1985. Aside from the thatched roof, which was replaced in 1952, the house remains as it was when it was first listed.
Local climate
Cook's Farmhouse receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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