Higher Wadden Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 October 1984. Farmhouse. 6 related planning applications.
Higher Wadden Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- odd-footing-magpie
- 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
- Address
- Higher Wadden Farmhouse, Southleigh Road, Colyton, EX24 6RY
- OS grid reference
- SY 215 940
- Coordinates
- 50.74032, -3.11305
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Higher Wadden Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 16th or 17th century. It is constructed of rendered stone and features a corrugated iron roof with both hipped and gabled ends. The building has two storeys, with the main range displaying three casement windows at the front. There is a 17th-century gabled wing extending at a right angle to the southeast, which includes a three-light ovolo moulded stone mullion window complete with a drip mould and chamfers. A Tudor arched doorway on the east side has been enclosed by another gabled wing. The front of the farmhouse is supported by two ramped buttresses and includes a modern glazed porch at the angle. There are brick chimney stacks located on the rear wall and on the gable end of the wing.
Inside, the west end features a moulded stone arched chimneypiece with carved spandrels. The central room has a fireplace with a massive moulded bressummer on the rear wall. The southeast wing boasts a very high ceiling supported by a stopped chamfer beam and a timber bressummer above a large fireplace.
Local climate
Higher Wadden Farmhouse receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 65% 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 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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