Brinscombe Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 April 1987. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.

Brinscombe Farmhouse

WRENN ID
odd-zinc-hemlock
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Devon
Constituency
North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 April 1987
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Brinscombe Farmhouse, Brinscombe Lane, Arlington, EX31 4SW
OS grid reference
SS 632 403
Coordinates
51.14578, -3.95699
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Brinscombe Farmhouse is a farmhouse that likely dates from the early 18th century, with some alterations made in the 20th century. The building is constructed of rendered stone rubble and features bitumenized slate roofs with gable ends, which are hipped at the angles. It has a large stone rubble chimney stack with a tapered cap at the left gable end, as well as a front lateral brick stack and an axial brick stack serving the rear service range.

The farmhouse is L-shaped in plan, with a principal room on each side of a wide entrance hall that contains a staircase, and a service wing located at the rear of the right-hand room. It stands two storeys tall. The main range includes a 2-light casement window with six panes per light above a 3-light and a 2-light casement window to the left of a sash window, which is situated above a lean-to slate canopy over the doorway. To the right on the ground floor, there is a 3-light casement window with six panes per light. The service range features four 2-light casement windows above two 3-light casement windows to the left of a plank door, which also has a slate lean-to canopy above it. The interior has been significantly altered in the 20th century.

Local climate

Brinscombe Farmhouse 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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  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2020
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