Combe Farm Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1989. A C18 Farmhouse.
Combe Farm Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- idle-baluster-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Honiton and Sidmouth MP: Richard Foord (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1989
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Combe Farm Farmhouse, Gittisham
- OS grid reference
- SY 143 975
- Coordinates
- 50.7714, -3.21618
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Combe Farm Farmhouse is a farmhouse that served as the home farm to Combe House. It likely dates from the early 18th century and has undergone renovations in the 20th century. The building is constructed of stone rubble and features a slate roof that is hipped at both ends, with the roofs of the rear wings also hipped at the ends. The main range has an axial stack with a brick shaft, while the rear left wing has an end stack made of handmade brick.
The farmhouse has a U-shaped plan, with a south-facing main range and rear left and right wings. There are entrances on both the south front and the west side of the west wing, along with a later outshut situated between the wings.
The exterior is two storeys high and presents an asymmetrical three-window south front, which includes a 20th-century gabled porch positioned to the right of the centre. The first floor features three small pane timber two-light casements, likely from the 19th or 20th century, while the ground floor has two two-light transomed casements with small panes, which may be 19th or 20th-century copies of earlier windows. The right-hand window on the ground floor has been replaced with a 20th-century iron frame casement.
The left (west) return is symmetrical with three bays and has a recessed half-glazed 19th-century front door in the centre, flanked by two-light transomed windows on either side. The first floor has three two-light 20th-century casements, similar to those on the south front. The interior has not been fully inspected, but the west wing is described as plain.
Local climate
Combe Farm Farmhouse receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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