Burrow Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1985. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Burrow Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- high-threshold-willow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Exmouth and Exeter East MP: David Reed (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 May 1985
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Burrow Farmhouse, Broad Clyst, EX5 3JA
- OS grid reference
- SX 990 980
- Coordinates
- 50.77282, -3.43313
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Burrow Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the early 16th century, with later alterations and extensions. It is constructed of cob with a stone plinth, rendered, and has a gabled-end slate roof. The original layout was a three-room through passage plan, with the lower end located to the right of the passage. The Hall was originally open, but the lower end has always been two storeys. The original roof of the inner room has not survived. There is a stack at the right-hand end and an axial stack at the upper end of the Hall. The building is two storeys throughout.
The front of the farmhouse features a four-window range, with all first-floor windows being two-lights under small gables. Three of these windows are boarded, while one is hipped and slated. There are two doorways on the ground floor; the one to the right, which is under a canopy, is slightly to the right of the original passage entrance. The opposing rear passage door has been blocked. The ground floor also includes three two and three-light windows, all of which are 20th-century timber casements.
On the side elevations, the left-hand rear wing has one hornless timber sash window with ten panes in each sash, while the right-hand wing contains four late 19th-century two-light timber casement windows. The backs of the wings do not have windows, and there is an outshut between them. The roof features a late-medieval structure over the Hall and lower end, with two lower-end trusses that are clean, while the Hall principals are smoke-blackened. The left-hand truss is closed and smoke-blackened only on the Hall side. The roof has trenched purlins, with apexes that are morticed and side pegged, although the diagonal ridge-piece is missing. The principals, including one lower end truss with only one blade, no longer support the present 19th-century roof.
Local climate
Burrow Farmhouse receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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