Downhayne Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 May 1967. House.
Downhayne Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- quartered-basalt-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Honiton and Sidmouth MP: Richard Foord (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 May 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- Downhayne Farmhouse, Downhayne Road, Colyton
- OS grid reference
- SY 231 953
- Coordinates
- 50.75277, -3.0904
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Downhayne Farmhouse is a house dating from the 16th or 17th century, constructed from stone rubble. It has an L-shaped plan and features a thatched roof with both hipped and gabled ends. The gable end to the south is roughcast and has stone dripmoulds over the windows. The building is two storeys high and has a total of five windows, arranged in three and two ranges, with 19th-century casements. There are brick stacks at the ridge and ends, and the stack over the north-east wing incorporates re-used stone that is dated 1661. At the rear of the north-east wing, there is a later outshut. Inside, the farmhouse has a heavy stop-chamfered ceiling beam and an open fireplace with stopped chamfered bressummers.
Local climate
Downhayne Farmhouse receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% 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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