Little Venn Farmhouse and Adjoining Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 November 1985. Farmhouse, cottage. 1 related planning application.

Little Venn Farmhouse and Adjoining Cottage

WRENN ID
forbidden-slate-azure
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, cottage
Address
Little Venn Farmhouse and Adjoining Cottage, EX17 4JU
OS grid reference
SS 886 067
Coordinates
50.84919, -3.58355
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Little Venn Farmhouse and the adjoining cottage are likely from the mid-18th century. They are constructed of plastered cob on rubble footings, with rubble stacks that have late 19th and 20th-century brick tops, and a corrugated iron roof that was originally thatch. The southeast-facing structure consists of a two-room cottage with a central stair plan on the left (southwest) and a one-room cottage on the right, both under the same roofline. There are gable end stacks, with the left stack projecting, and an axial stack to the right of the middle room in the cob party wall between the farmhouse and the cottage. The building has two storeys and an overall four-window front featuring mostly late 19th to early 20th-century casements with glazing bars. The farmhouse door is set beneath an early 20th-century trellis porch, while the cottage door is located behind a 20th-century glass-sided porch. The interior has been largely refurbished in the 20th century, which has mostly blocked the fireplaces and boxed in the beams. A large rubble fireplace in the cottage has a plain chamfered oak lintel inscribed on the right end with "WS 17.." - the last numerals are illegible. The roof is inaccessible.

Local climate

Little Venn Farmhouse and Adjoining Cottage 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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