Middle Weeke Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 November 1985. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
Middle Weeke Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- winter-column-equinox
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Devon
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1985
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Middle Weeke Farmhouse, Morchard Bishop, EX17 6SJ
- OS grid reference
- SS 762 062
- Coordinates
- 50.84244, -3.75956
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Middle Weeke Farmhouse is a farmhouse with a core dating from the 16th century and improvements made in the 17th century. It was renovated around 1973. The building features plastered cob on rubble footings, with rubble stacks topped by 20th-century brick, and a concrete interlocking tile roof that was formerly thatched. The house has an altered three-room-and-through-passage plan and faces southeast, with a service room at the southwest end. It has end stacks, although the inner room stack is disused, and an axial hall stack that backs onto the former passage. There are 20th-century single-storey rear outshots. The farmhouse is two storeys high and has an irregular four-window front, with large pane sashes from the late 19th and 20th centuries. To the left of centre, there is a 20th-century gable-roofed porch made of concrete pantiles, flanked by tripartite sashes. The roof is gable-ended.
The interior was modernised around 1973, but much of the original fabric likely remains behind 19th and 20th-century plaster. The fireplaces are blocked, the ceiling level in the service room has been raised with a new crossbeam, and the partition between the hall and inner room was removed around 1973. A mid-17th-century crossbeam in the hall features elaborate moulding with finely detailed scroll stops and inscribed floral motifs. The roof is not accessible, and the lower parts of the trusses are boxed in, giving the impression of a 17th-century or later roof. However, torchlight through a small hole in the first-floor ceiling reveals some smoke-blackened timbers.
Local climate
Middle Weeke 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2017
- Related listed building consents — 3 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings