Yarmleigh Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1985. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Yarmleigh Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- spare-column-myrtle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Devon
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 May 1985
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Yarmleigh Farmhouse, Yarmleigh Lane, Sandford
- OS grid reference
- SS 806 045
- Coordinates
- 50.82773, -3.69577
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Yarmleigh Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the early to mid-17th century that was modernised in 1984. It features plastered cob on rubble footings and volcanic stacks, most of which are topped with 19th-century brick, and has a thatched roof. The building is a three-room-and-through passage house that faces southeast, with a service room at the left (southwest) end. There are end stacks for the service and inner rooms, a lateral stack that projects to the rear of the hall, and a gable-ended stair turret at the back of the inner room.
The farmhouse is two storeys high and has an irregular six-window front with windows of various sizes installed during the 1984 modernisation. The front passage door, located to the left of centre, has an early to mid-17th-century oak frame with double ovolo moulding and scroll stops, and there is a similar frame for the rear passage door. The inner room stack features a 17th-century volcanic stone chimney shaft, while the rear stair turret includes an early to mid-17th-century oak two-light window with chamfered mullions.
Inside, the hall has an exposed early to mid-17th-century double-ovolo moulded crossbeam with scroll stops, and a similar crossbeam in the inner room with bar-runout stops. The 1984 modernisation involved the removal of some early to mid-17th-century features, including ovolo-moulded oak mullion windows with diamond-pane leaded glass from the front, oak window lintels with ovolo moulding and scroll stops, and a similarly styled door frame possibly from the hall to the inner room. There is a 20th-century cottage extension adjoining to the northeast, which is not included in the listing.
Local climate
Yarmleigh 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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