Beers Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 November 1986. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Beers Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-cornice-swallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Devon
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 November 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Beers Farmhouse, Copplestone
- OS grid reference
- SS 760 027
- Coordinates
- 50.8109, -3.76117
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Beers Farmhouse is a farmhouse that likely dates from the late 17th century to early 18th century, with refurbishments made in the 19th century. It is constructed of plastered cob on rubble footings, featuring stone rubble stacks topped with 19th and 20th-century brick, and a thatched roof that has been replaced with slate over the kitchen block. There is a late 19th-century addition made of brick with a slate roof.
The main part of the farmhouse faces south and consists of a two-room layout with a central entrance lobby that indicates the original location of the stair. There are stacks projecting from each end, and the kitchen block has an outer lateral stack. The late 19th-century service addition has a parallel roof that overlaps the main block on the right side and projects to the right. The building is two storeys high and has a nearly symmetrical three-window front.
The central door is located behind an early 20th-century porch with a gabled and tile roof, featuring frosted glass windows. To the left, there is a fixed pane window with glazing bars that disrupts the symmetry. The left end has large late 19th-century casement windows with glazing bars on both floors. The centre and right windows on the first floor are 19th-century 16-pane sashes, while the ground floor right window is a 20th-century horned replacement sash without glazing bars. The late 19th-century service addition has casements set under segmental arches.
Inside, the farmhouse primarily showcases late 19th-century joinery and plasterwork. The left front room features a late 17th to early 18th-century chamfered crossbeam with run-out stops, and the kitchen has a roughly-chamfered axial beam that is likely from the same period. Other early features may be concealed, as all fireplaces are currently blocked. The roof is inaccessible, but the feet of the truss principals suggest that a late 17th to early 18th-century A-frame truss roof may still exist.
Local climate
Beers Farmhouse receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% 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 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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
- No sale records on file
- 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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