Yarnacott Farmhouse, Including Ciderhouse Attached to West is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. Farmhouse.

Yarnacott Farmhouse, Including Ciderhouse Attached to West

WRENN ID
calm-brick-oak
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Devon
Constituency
North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
Country
England
Type
Farmhouse
OS grid reference
SS 622 306
Coordinates
51.05863, -3.96717
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Yarnacott Farmhouse, which includes an attached cider house to the west, is a farmhouse that likely dates back to the early 16th century, with remodeling from the 17th century and alterations in the 20th century. The cider house is from the 17th century, with 19th-century modifications. The farmhouse is constructed of painted rendered stone and cob, topped with a tiled roof, while the cider house is made of stone rubble with a corrugated iron roof.

The farmhouse features a tall lateral rubble stack with offsets, and it follows a three-room cross-passage plan, indicating it was probably originally an open hall house. Inside, there is a cupboard in the through-passage with a blocked rear entrance. The building has two storeys and a four-window range, with 19th and 20th-century windows. There is a corrugated asbestos canopy over slate-capped steps leading to the cross-passage doorway, and a buttress at the left end. The cider house has external steps leading to a loft with a plank door and a five-light timber mullion window at the rear.

Inside the farmhouse, there is a notable plank and muntin screen at the upper end of the hall, which is six panels wide with chamfered and roll-moulded muntins, stopped above the dais bench. The hall's ceiling beams are unadorned, and there are three raised cruck trusses set low over the hall and inner room, suggesting that it may have once been an open hall house, although an inspection of the roof was not possible. The cider house features stop-chamfered beams.

Local climate

Yarnacott Farmhouse, Including Ciderhouse Attached to West sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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