Downes Home Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1985. Farmhouse. 5 related planning applications.

Downes Home Farmhouse

WRENN ID
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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
Downes Home Farmhouse, Crediton Hamlets, EX17 3PL
OS grid reference
SX 848 997
Coordinates
50.78626, -3.63535
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Downes Home Farmhouse is the home farmhouse of the Downes estate, built around 1850. It is constructed of red brick and features a slate roof. The farmhouse is a two-room structure facing southeast, designed with a central staircase plan, end stacks, and a rear service block. It stands two storeys tall and has a balanced but not symmetrical four-window front. On the ground floor, there are windows on each side of a four-panel door with an overlight featuring glazing bars, positioned to the right of center. The first floor has four windows, with the two in the center being narrower than the outer ones. All windows are 16-pane sashes set under segmental brick arches. The eaves are deep and supported by shaped brackets, and the roof is hipped on each side.

Local climate

Downes Home Farmhouse receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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