Knowle Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 April 1987. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.

Knowle Farmhouse

WRENN ID
broken-ledge-twilight
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Devon
Constituency
Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 April 1987
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Knowle Farmhouse, Clayhidon, EX15 3QA
OS grid reference
ST 174 101
Coordinates
50.88527, -3.17475
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Knowle Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the mid to late 17th century. It is constructed of random rubble chert and features a gable end corrugated iron roof. The house has a two-room plan with rooms of unequal size. There may have originally been a central passage, as indicated by the remains of a rough partition behind the axial stack fireplace, but this area is now occupied by a bathroom. The right-hand room is heated by an internal end stack, while the left-hand room is heated by an axial stack, both with brick shafts.

The front exterior has a three-window range, consisting of one three-light and two two-light 19th-century casement windows on the first floor, and two 19th-century three-light casement windows on the ground floor, one on either side of a pair of doors (one planked and one glazed), as the house was formerly two cottages. There is a breezeblock porch and a later continuous rear outshut, likely from the 19th century, which includes 19th-century windows and a door.

Inside, there is one chamfered ceiling cross beam with hollow step stops in each room. The details of the fireplaces are obscured but still survive behind the current grates. The roof trusses feature long straight principals and large roughly finished purlins.

Local climate

Knowle Farmhouse receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% 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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