Dares Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 October 1984. House. 2 related planning applications.
Dares Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- wild-doorway-smoke
- 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
- Dares Farmhouse, Swan Hill Road, Colyford, EX24 6QS
- OS grid reference
- SY 247 923
- Coordinates
- 50.72609, -3.06758
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dares Farmhouse is an 18th and early 19th century house situated on Swan Hill Road, Colyford. The house is built of plastered stone and has a thatched roof with gabled ends. The front façade curves to follow the line of the road. It is two storeys high with three bays, featuring sash windows with glazing bars. The central glazed and panelled door is sheltered by a modern gabled porch. Brick chimney stacks are at each end of the house. A long range extends to the left (north-west) with a lower roof of bitumenised slate, stepped at two levels. This section has two storeys, a three-window range, first-floor sash windows, and ground-floor casements.
Local climate
Dares 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.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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