North Kipscombe Farmhouse and Attached Shippon is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 October 1978. Farmhouse.
North Kipscombe Farmhouse and Attached Shippon
- WRENN ID
- waiting-remnant-elder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 October 1978
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- North Kipscombe Farmhouse and Attached Shippon, Bratton Fleming
- OS grid reference
- SS 673 397
- Coordinates
- 51.14172, -3.89741
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
North Kipscombe Farmhouse and attached shippon is a farmhouse with a shippon that dates from the late 16th century or 17th century, with extensions made in the 19th century. The building is constructed of stone rubble and has slate roofs, featuring a gable end on the right and a hipped end on the left. There are two stone rubble ridge stacks with drips, along with an additional brick stack located in front of the right side stack.
The layout follows a through-passage plan, with the shippon on the left side now having a separate entry, although it originally had access from the through-passage. The right side contains a hall and a heated inner room, with a two-storey dairy extension at the right end. The farmhouse is two storeys high, and the roof over the shippon end of the through-passage is at a lower level.
The façade features a three-window range of 19th to 20th century casements. The leftmost window has two lights, each with two panes, situated above a gabled stone porch that has an unmoulded pointed arched doorway, with seats on both sides of the inner plank door. To the left, there is a 19th century window with four narrow lights that illuminates the shippon. The upper end has a two-light window with four panes per light and a three-light window with three panes per light above two two-light windows with six panes per light, along with a 20th century window in the right end extension. There are lean-tos at the rear. Inside, there is a chamfered and stopped beam in the hall and a two-panelled door leading to the inner room. The lower end of the shippon has been rebuilt using breeze blocks.
Local climate
North Kipscombe Farmhouse and Attached Shippon sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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