Three Gates Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 December 1987. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.

Three Gates Farmhouse

WRENN ID
scarred-stronghold-peregrine
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Devon
Constituency
Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
7 December 1987
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Three Gates Farmhouse, Huntsham, EX16 7QH
OS grid reference
SS 988 194
Coordinates
50.96528, -3.44197
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Three Gates Farmhouse is an early 17th-century former farmhouse with a later 17th-century addition at the right end. The walls are a mix of whitewashed rendered cob and stone, with the front wall reportedly partially rebuilt in the 20th century. The roof is slate, formerly thatched, and gabled at each end. There's a front lateral brick stack and a projecting stack at the right end of the main block, along with a further stack to the right end addition.

The layout is L-shaped. The early 17th-century main block consists of two rooms with a wide central passage and an unheated single-room rear wing, likely originally used as a dairy. A single-storey kitchen addition, said to be from the 17th century, is situated at the right end of the main range. A rear lean-to, likely built after the 17th century, extends from the back.

The front facade is asymmetrical, with three plus one windows. A gabled porch is centrally positioned on the main block, which has 19th or 20th-century casement windows with glazing bars. The kitchen block at the right end features a 20th-century glazed porch and a circa 18th-century three-light casement window on the first floor with square leaded panes. A similar 18th-century casement window is visible on the left return of the main range. A timber-mullioned window, dating from the 17th century, is located on the ground floor of the rear wing within the end wall.

During a 1986 survey, access to the interior was not possible, but it was reportedly constructed with jointed cruck roof construction concealed by later roof timbers, along with open fireplaces and stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops.

Local climate

Three Gates Farmhouse receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% 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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