Tower Farm House is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1986. Farmhouse.

Tower Farm House

WRENN ID
crooked-string-blackthorn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Devon
Constituency
North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 March 1986
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Tower Farm House, Swimbridge
OS grid reference
SS 640 284
Coordinates
51.03891, -3.94089
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Tower Farm House is a farmhouse dating from the 17th century, with possibly earlier fabric concealed within. It features a rendered stone and cob construction topped with a bitumenised slate roof, which is half-hipped at the left end and gable-ended at the right. A small stack is located at the angle of the right end front, while a lateral brick stack at the rear heats the lower end and is enclosed in a slated outshut. There is also an axial brick stack that formerly backed onto a cross-passage, but the passage partition has been removed, and a window has been inserted in the former cross-passage doorway.

The house has a small lobby entry at the lower end, with three rooms arranged in a line and a stair turret that extends as an outshut to the rear of the hall. It is two storeys high and has a four-window range, featuring three sashes with margin glazing bars on each floor, along with a two-light casement with six panes per light above another two-light casement with two panes per light at the right end.

Inside, there is 19th-century joinery at the lower end and a roughly chamfered beam at the upper end. A twin flight of stairs leads to the stair turret. One 17th-century roof truss remains, characterized by straight principals with a lap-jointed collar and trenches for three tiers of purlins, which have since been removed. This truss is closed off with a lath, cob, and plaster partition, while the remaining roof trusses have been replaced.

Local climate

Tower Farm House 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 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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