Reeds Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1984. House.

Reeds Farmhouse

WRENN ID
hallowed-facade-reed
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Devon
Constituency
Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 November 1984
Type
House
Address
Reeds Farmhouse, Newton St. Cyres
OS grid reference
SX 864 983
Coordinates
50.77401, -3.61168
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Reeds Farmhouse is a house, formerly a farmhouse, dating from the late 16th century, with possible earlier origins, and partly rebuilt in the 20th century. It features plastered cob on rubble footings, stone and brick chimney stacks, and a 20th-century slate roof that was originally thatch. The building has a traditional three-room and through passage plan, although the lower end and passage at the north-east end have been completely rebuilt. It is two storeys throughout.

On the south-east front, there are three windows on each floor to the left of a massive projecting lateral stack made of volcanic stone. Most windows are 19th and 20th-century casements, but some are earlier. Two chamfered mullions have been removed from a 12th-century window near the hall stack on the first floor. Other early wooden windows are preserved in the gable end to the left of the stack on the ground floor and in the centre of the first floor on the north-west side.

Inside, the hall features a large 16th-century fireplace made of volcanic stone with an oak lintel, along with deep chamfered cross beams that have step stops. The inner room contains a fireplace likely from the 18th century, with a plain-chamfered elm ceiling beam. Early roof timbers are also said to survive.

Local climate

Reeds Farmhouse 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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