Higher Westwater Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 June 1983. House. 2 related planning applications.
Higher Westwater Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- vacant-pillar-larch
- 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
- Higher Westwater Farmhouse, Axminster, EX13 7JD
- OS grid reference
- SY 275 999
- Coordinates
- 50.79421, -3.02943
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Higher Westwater Farmhouse is a stone rubble house dating from around the 16th century, with a byre at the lower end that has been converted into cottages. It features a thatched hipped roof and stands two storeys tall, presenting a long range of four windows. The 19th-century casements on the first floor have eyebrow eaves above them, while the ground floor has larger casement windows with concrete lintels. There are modern glazed doors on both the left and right sides of the building. Brick ridge chimney stacks are present, and at the rear, there are two stone rubble wings from the 17th or 18th century.
Inside, the farmhouse showcases cruck trusses, which are likely joisted but covered with plaster. The ceiling beams are stopped chamfered.
Local climate
Higher Westwater 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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