Snells Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 November 1986. Farmhouse. 7 related planning applications.

Snells Farmhouse

WRENN ID
sunken-pewter-starling
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
Snells Farmhouse, Colebrooke, EX17 5JS
OS grid reference
SX 773 999
Coordinates
50.78631, -3.74184
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Snells Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the late 17th to early 18th century. It is constructed of plastered cob on rubble footings, with cob stacks topped by 19th and 20th-century brick, and features a thatched roof. The house has a three-room plan and faces southeast, away from the road. It has a right (northeastern) end stack for the room at that end, a rear lateral stack for the middle room, and a small unheated left (southwestern) end room. The building is two storeys high and has an irregular three-window front, which includes various late 19th and early 20th-century casements with glazing bars. There is a late 19th-century four-panel front door located to the right of centre, accompanied by a contemporary hood that now has a corrugated iron roof supported by shaped brackets. The roof is hipped at both ends, and the rear wall facing the road is blind.

Inside, the interior mainly features late 19th-century plaster and joinery, which likely conceals earlier elements. The right room displays a late 17th to early 18th-century soffit-chamfered beam with run-out stops. Both fireplaces in the house are blocked. The roof is inaccessible, and the feet of the trusses are plastered over, but their shape and size suggest they are original A-frame trusses.

Local climate

Snells Farmhouse receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% 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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