Burnthouse Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1988. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Burnthouse Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- broken-banister-moss
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Honiton and Sidmouth MP: Richard Foord (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Burnthouse Farmhouse, Upottery, EX14 9QT
- OS grid reference
- ST 202 086
- Coordinates
- 50.87177, -3.13474
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Burnthouse Farmhouse is a farmhouse from the early to mid-19th century. It is constructed of plastered local stone and flint rubble, with stone rubble stacks topped with 19th and 20th-century brick. The main house has a thatched roof, while the outshots have tiled roofs. The farmhouse features a three-room plan and faces southwest, built across a hillslope. There is an entrance hall that contains the main stair, situated between the two main rooms: the kitchen on the left (northwest) and the parlour in the center, both of which have rear lateral stacks. The small room on the right (southeast) is unheated and was likely used as a dairy or buttery.
The exterior has a regular but not symmetrical three-window front, featuring 20th-century casements with glazing bars. The right window on the ground floor has a low segmental arch above it. The front doorway is positioned to the left of center and contains a 19th-century plank door behind a 20th-century gabled porch. The main roof is gabled at both ends.
Inside, there are no joinery details earlier than the 19th century, and no carpentry details are exposed. The fireplaces have been blocked by 20th-century grates, and the roof has not been inspected.
Local climate
Burnthouse Farmhouse receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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 — 1 transaction since 2001
- 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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