Verdun Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1987. Farmhouse.
Verdun Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- ragged-bonework-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Verdun Farmhouse, Atherington
- OS grid reference
- SS 591 230
- Coordinates
- 50.9897, -4.00853
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Verdun Farmhouse is a tenement farmhouse, probably dating from the 18th century. It features rendered cob above a rubble plinth and has a thatched roof that is hipped at the right end. There is a brick stack at the left end. The building is two storeys high and has a central hall passage with two rooms. It has a three-window range with late 19th or early 20th century fenestration, consisting of four-paned sashes, with two similar sashes flanking a brick porch that has a gabled slate roof. There is a plaque marked "J 1917 M" located between the two left-hand first floor windows. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Verdun Farmhouse receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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