Horridge Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 November 1985. Farmhouse.
Horridge Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
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- 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
- Address
- Horridge Farmhouse, Woolfardisworthy
- OS grid reference
- SS 791 103
- Coordinates
- 50.87969, -3.71985
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Horridge Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the mid to late 17th century, with renovations from the late 19th century. It is constructed of plastered cob on rubble footings, featuring rubble stacks topped with 20th-century brick (one of which is plastered) and a slate roof with a patent coating, which was originally thatch. The house has a two-room plan that faces south, with a central cross passage and stairs leading to the rear. It has end stacks, with the eastern stack projecting from the gable end. The building is two storeys high and has a symmetrical three-window front, featuring late 19th-century casements with glazing bars. The central door, also from the late 19th century, is a six-panel design with the upper two panels glazed, and it is accompanied by a 20th-century porch with plain timber posts, trellis-work sides, and a corrugated iron monopitch roof.
The interior primarily reflects the late 19th-century renovations, with blocked fireplaces and boxed-in beams, although some 17th-century features may still be concealed. The left (western) room contains a large kitchen fireplace, and there is a cob crosswall between the passage and the right (eastern) room. The 17th-century roof structure includes an A-frame truss with a pegged lap-jointed collar.
Local climate
Horridge Farmhouse receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% 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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