Pitt Farmhouse Including Adjoining Store to South-West is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1985. House.
Pitt Farmhouse Including Adjoining Store to South-West
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-quoin-crag
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Devon
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 May 1985
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- SS 813 000
- Coordinates
- 50.78819, -3.68493
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pitt Farmhouse, including the adjoining store to the south-west, is a house and store that were formerly cottages and an adjoining linhay. It likely dates from the 17th century but has significant early and late 19th-century alterations. The building is constructed of plastered cob and rubble, with some sections made of brick, and features brick stacks topped with late 19th-century brick. The roof is thatched with wheat reed and is hipped at both ends.
The structure is L-shaped, with the main block facing south-east and a rear block behind the right end. The front block consists of four cells, which includes a two-room house with end stacks and a rear block to the right, as well as a two-room store and workshop to the left, which is partly open-fronted. The front has an irregular arrangement of four windows, featuring 19th and 20th-century wooden casements, most of which have glazing bars.
There are three doors to the right of the open bay: one leads to the workshop, and one to each of the domestic rooms. The left side of the house is built of late 19th-century brick, and both the door and ground floor window have segmental arch heads. The open-fronted section at the left end retains a full-height timber post from the former three-bay linhay, suggesting that the adjoining brick section of the house may have encroached into two bays of the linhay. Inside, there are plain carpentry details, including a presumably reused 17th-century scroll-stopped crossbeam in the brick-built cell and several 18th or early 19th-century plank doors. Originally, it appears that the right front room and rear block were constructed as a small farmhouse with an adjoining linhay.
Local climate
Pitt Farmhouse Including Adjoining Store to South-West 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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