Farthings is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 April 1952. House. 5 related planning applications.
Farthings
- WRENN ID
- waning-rafter-spindle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Honiton and Sidmouth MP: Richard Foord (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 April 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- Farthings, Ottery St. Mary, EX11 1LX
- OS grid reference
- SY 097 972
- Coordinates
- 50.76817, -3.28078
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Farthings is a 17th-century, two-storey house constructed of cob with a hipped thatch roof and a massive central chimney. To the right of the entrance, part of the house is slightly jettied. The building features a wide door opening, two three-light casements, and one very small window. An extension to the north, originally a barn, has been adapted as a domestic wing. Inside, there is a timber-framed crosswall, chamfered beams, hewn roof trusses, large fireplaces with stop-chamfered beams, and a curved wall leading to a winding stair. Farthings is part of a group that includes Gosford House, Gosford Pines, and Gosford Farmhouse.
Local climate
Farthings receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2009
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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