Great Dorweeke Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 June 1986. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.

Great Dorweeke Farmhouse

WRENN ID
gaunt-quoin-thrush
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Devon
Constituency
Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 June 1986
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Great Dorweeke Farmhouse, Silverton, EX5 4BZ
OS grid reference
SS 953 068
Coordinates
50.8516, -3.48784
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Great Dorweeke Farmhouse is a farmhouse with a core dating back to the 17th century, though it was largely rebuilt in the 19th century. The building is constructed of roughcast cob with stone footings and features a half-hipped thatched roof. Originally, it had a three-room, through-passage layout with a rear wing for the inner room. There is a left-hand stack at the lower end and an axial stack at the higher end of the hall, both with brick shafts. The farmhouse has two storeys.

The front of the house has a five-window range, with all upper windows consisting of two lights and featuring 19th-century casements, each with four panes per light and margin panes. On the ground floor, there are three identical windows to the right of the doorway, which has panelled reveals and pilasters, and is sheltered by a later 20th-century pantiled porch. To the left of the doorway, a window has been converted into a French window with glazing bars. The right-hand end of the house has a three-light window on the first floor with deeply chamfered mullions and surround, and a 19th-century window below it.

At the rear, there is a slated lean-to with a six-light 19th-century casement window and two two-light 19th-century windows above. Notably, the gable wall of a barn located 7 metres east of the farmhouse features a single-light medieval window, likely from the 15th century, which is trefoil-headed under a square hood mould and has a deeply chamfered surround with a glazing groove.

Local climate

Great Dorweeke Farmhouse receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% 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 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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 — 3 transactions since 2003
  • 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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