Great Woods Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 June 1967. Farmhouse.

Great Woods Farmhouse

WRENN ID
crooked-latch-bone
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Devon
Constituency
North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 June 1967
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Great Woods Farmhouse, Molland
OS grid reference
SS 796 271
Coordinates
51.03116, -3.718
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

Great Woods Farmhouse is a farmhouse that likely dates back to the 16th century, with a late 19th-century addition and mid to late 20th-century alterations. The building is rendered over stone rubble and cob, featuring a gable-ended asbestos-slate roof that was formerly thatched. It has a rendered front lateral stack, with the tops of the stacks made from 19th-century red brick.

The farmhouse probably has a three-room and cross-passage plan, facing west with the ground sloping to the right. The central room has a full-height projection and an external lateral stack at the front, likely with a cross passage to the right. There is a service room to the right with an external lateral stack at the rear, and an upper room to the left with an entrance in the left-hand gable end. A 19th-century wing extends to the rear of the upper room, featuring an integral brick end stack and a lean-to outshut to the north. A late 20th-century lean-to porch is located at the front, to the right of the stack.

The exterior is asymmetrical, with the lateral stack positioned to the right of center. The center of the first floor has a 19th-century three-light wooden casement window, while the ground floor features two 20th-century wooden casements: a three-light in the center and a two-light to the left. There is a boarded door to the right of the stack, accompanied by the late 20th-century porch. The front stack has chamfered offsets. The left-hand gable end includes a first-floor two-light wooden casement and a ground-floor boarded door.

Interior access is currently denied, but an old listing description mentions open fireplaces, a hall with moulded ceiling beams and joists, and a kitchen with a plain timber ceiling. Sawn purlin ends are visible in the left-hand gable end, and the owner reported chamfered beams in August 1987.

Local climate

Great Woods 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.

More on this building

Sign in or create a free account to unlock:

  • No EPC on record for this property
  • No sale records on file
  • No related consent applications matched
  • 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
Create free account

Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.

Similar buildings

The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.

Nearby listed buildings

  1. Little Woods Cottage Grade II 68 m
  2. Lower Woods Cottage Grade II 342 m
  3. Wade Mill House Grade II 673 m
  4. Wade Mill Grade II 708 m
  5. Lyddon's Cottage Grade II 837 m
  6. Limekiln at Ss 8069 2718 Grade II 1.1 km
  7. Little Champson Grade II 1.3 km
  8. Deer View Cottage Grade II 1.3 km
  9. West Molland Barton Grade II* 1.4 km
  10. Champson Farm Cottage Middle Champson Grade II 1.4 km