West Kimmings Farmhouse and Farmbuilding Adjoining at the South East is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 October 1988. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
West Kimmings Farmhouse and Farmbuilding Adjoining at the South East
- WRENN ID
- crooked-chalk-martin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 October 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- West Kimmings Farmhouse and Farmbuilding Adjoining at the South East, EX36 4QX
- OS grid reference
- SS 798 232
- Coordinates
- 50.99578, -3.71405
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
West Kimmings Farmhouse and the adjoining farmbuilding, located at the southeast, is a tenanted farmhouse likely built in the late 18th century or early 19th century. The structure is made of cob and stone rubble, topped with a corrugated asbestos roof that is gabled at both ends; it was thatched until at least 1960. The farmhouse features a left end stack with a brick shaft and an axial stack with a stone shaft. The adjoining farmbuilding has a monopitch roof made of corrugated iron.
The farmhouse is positioned on steeply sloping ground that descends to the north and faces approximately south. It has a single depth, two-room layout with a central entrance. The kitchen is located to the left (east) and the parlour to the right (west). At the west end of the property, there is a bank barn that provides access to the loft from the south side and a shippon below, accessible from the north side.
The exterior of the two-storey house features an asymmetrical front with three windows that have regular spacing. It has a 20th-century timber front door and 19th or 20th-century three-light timber casements with glazing bars on either side, along with a similar two-light casement above the front door. The farmbuilding to the right includes a large double doorway with cheeks. The impressive rear (north) elevation of the farmbuilding showcases four round-headed openings for the shippon on the ground floor, supported by rectangular section piers. The north elevation of the house has one first-floor two-light casement and three ground-floor casements.
Inside the farmhouse, there are two large open fireplaces, with the left-hand fireplace featuring a bread oven. In the farmbuilding, the floorboards near the north wall have been removed to facilitate dropping fodder directly into the mangers below.
Local climate
West Kimmings Farmhouse and Farmbuilding Adjoining at the South East 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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- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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