Balls Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 June 1983. House.

Balls Farmhouse

WRENN ID
dusk-keystone-heron
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Devon
Constituency
Honiton and Sidmouth MP: Richard Foord (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 June 1983
Type
House
Address
Balls Farmhouse, Musbury Road, Axminster
OS grid reference
SY 286 967
Coordinates
50.76607, -3.01243
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Balls Farmhouse is a house dating from around the 16th century, built with plastered rubble and designed in an L-shaped plan. It features a tiled roof with hipped and gabled ends and stands two storeys high. The facade includes a three-window range with three-light casements. There is a stone rubble porch with a thatched roof located off centre, and the house has end chimney stacks. To the left, there is a gabled wing with a slate roof, while to the right, a single-storey cob wing with a thatched roof completes the L-shaped layout.

Inside, the farmhouse showcases a jointed cruck truss, along with stopped chamfered ceiling beams and fireplace bressummers.

Local climate

Balls Farmhouse receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% 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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