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

Hole Farmhouse

WRENN ID
second-roof-rush
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Devon
Constituency
North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 February 1967
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Hole Farmhouse, Hole Hill, Witheridge
OS grid reference
SS 814 152
Coordinates
50.92481, -3.68766
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Hole Farmhouse is a farmhouse that dates from the late 17th century, with later alterations in the late 18th century and 19th century. It has a rubble core that is rendered and roughcast, and it is whitewashed with a hipped slate roof and brick stacks. The building has a long single room depth plan, with a lobby entrance to the right and a two-storey porch that projects over the door opening. This lobby is situated next to a stack that heats the rooms on either side. The room on the right is a small parlour, while the left side contains a kitchen with a large fireplace. Beyond the kitchen is a hall with a rear lateral stack, and further to the left is an inner room with an axial stack, along with an additional room of unknown purpose to the left of this. In the 20th century, the left room and the inner room were altered, and a door opening into the hall from the outside was blocked.

The exterior features a two-storey long front with a layout of three bays, four bays, one bay, and one bay. It has 2 and 3-light casements with glazing bars, all dating from the 19th century, as well as four sash windows on the right side, which have 9 and 12 panes and exposed sash boxes. The eighth window from the left is located in the projecting two-storeyed porch, which has a front-facing gable. The door opening features a six-panelled door.

Inside, the parlour to the right is featureless, while the kitchen contains a fireplace with a bressumer that has a chamfer. The hall has a rear lateral stack with a chamfered bressumer that features step stops, and there is a chamfered axial ceiling beam with similar stops. Part of the collar-beam roof from the 17th century survives, but the remainder of the roof was replaced in the 19th century.

Local climate

Hole Farmhouse receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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