Higher Whitehouse Farm is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 October 1984. A C16 House. 4 related planning applications.
Higher Whitehouse Farm
- WRENN ID
- noble-gable-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Honiton and Sidmouth MP: Richard Foord (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 October 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Higher Whitehouse Farm, Holy City, Axminster, Chardstock, EX13 7JZ
- OS grid reference
- ST 295 051
- Coordinates
- 50.84182, -3.0021
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Higher Whitehouse Farm is a small house dating from the early 16th century, likely a former hall house that had a floor inserted in the 17th century. It is constructed of white-washed stone rubble and features a thatched roof with gabled ends. The building has one storey and an attic, with a three or four window range. The windows are 19th-century casements with glazing bars, and there are two gabled dormers. A modern gabled porch with a plank door is located off centre, and there is a lean-to at the north end. A brick chimney stack is positioned at the ridge and gable end.
Inside, the house has joined cruck trusses, an inserted timber-framed chimney stack, and inserted floors with stopped chamfered ceiling beams. The open fireplaces have a chamfered bressummer, and there is a plank and muntin screen at the higher (south) end. A Tudor arch doorway leads to the rear wing.
Local climate
Higher Whitehouse Farm 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 — 4 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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