Lower Winsham Farmhouse and Attached Barn is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 November 1985. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Lower Winsham Farmhouse and Attached Barn
- WRENN ID
- crooked-obsidian-sunrise
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 November 1985
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Lower Winsham Farmhouse and Attached Barn, Braunton, EX33 2LX
- OS grid reference
- SS 499 387
- Coordinates
- 51.12819, -4.14608
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lower Winsham Farmhouse is a farmhouse that has been converted into a dwelling house, dating from the 16th or 17th century. It is constructed of colourwashed rendered rubble and cob, featuring a rubble and brick stack with a pantiled offset at the south gable end. The building has an L-shaped, two-storey plan with a gable-ended pantiled roof. At the rear, there is a right-angled, two-storey kitchen wing that extends southward.
The west front showcases a tripartite sash window with three over three panes in the center, accompanied by sliding sidelight sashes to the right of a half-glazed door that is sheltered by a wooden porch from the 20th century. Above, there are two 2-light casement windows. The south front includes a 2-light window positioned above a three-paned casement.
Attached to the farmhouse is a barn that extends west at a right angle to the front. This barn features a blocked loft opening above a plank door with a timber lintel. The roof timbers of the barn were replaced in the 1940s following a fire. Inside the farmhouse, many alterations have been made, but a roughly chamfered beam in the hall and a stopped and chamfered fireplace lintel remain as original features.
Local climate
Lower Winsham Farmhouse and Attached Barn 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 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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