East Kidland Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. Farmhouse.
East Kidland Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- lesser-bonework-primrose
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- East Kidland Farmhouse, Kidland Lane, Knowstone
- OS grid reference
- SS 806 224
- Coordinates
- 50.9888, -3.70178
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
East Kidland Farmhouse is a farmhouse with origins dating from the late 16th century or early 17th century. The inner room end was remodeled and extended in the early 19th century. It is constructed of rendered stone rubble and cob, topped with an asbestos slate roof that is half-hipped at the right end. There is a brick stack at the left gable end and an axial stone rubble stack with a tapered cap and drip.
The building likely originally had a three-room layout with an unusual lobby entry, with the lower end to the right. In the early 19th century, the inner room end was rebuilt and extended to create a symmetrical two-room plan with a central staircase, possibly to allow for independent family living. A continuous outshot extends to the rear.
The exterior is two storeys high and features a six-window range. The left side aims for symmetry with 19th-century fenestration, including three 2-light casements with eight panes per light above 16-paned hornless sashes, flanking a four-panel door. To the right, there is a three-light casement with six panes per light to the left of a small single-light window above a plank door. Another plank door at the right end provides direct access to the lower end, which has a two-light casement above.
Inside, there is a chamfered axial ceiling beam in the hall with hollow step stops. The lower end is still used as a service area with rough cross ceiling beams. The 19th-century joinery in the inner room end remains entirely intact, and the entire range has seen little alteration in the 20th century.
Local climate
East Kidland Farmhouse receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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