Great Halfsbury Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 January 1988. Farmhouse.
Great Halfsbury Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- rooted-arch-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 January 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Great Halfsbury Farmhouse, Burrington
- OS grid reference
- SS 613 175
- Coordinates
- 50.94056, -3.97489
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Great Halfsbury Farmhouse is an early 19th-century farmhouse constructed of rendered stone rubble and cob. It features a hipped scantle slate roof with brick stacks at each end, with the left end stack having been rebuilt. The building has a symmetrical double depth plan, with a principal room on each side of a central passage that contains the main staircase. There is a former salting house located at the rear of the left-hand room, and a secondary servants' staircase situated on the rear left side of the passage, with a kitchen at the back of the right-hand room.
The farmhouse is two storeys high and has a three-window range, displaying a symmetrical façade. Most of the windows are 19th-century, consisting of three-light casements with eight panes per light, except for the ground floor left-hand window, which has three panes per light. The central door, which is of 20th-century design, includes an overlight and a timber canopy. A lean-to structure is present at the right end of the building.
Inside, the farmhouse retains early 19th-century joinery, including four-panelled doors and intact staircases. The right-hand room features an open fireplace with a timber lintel, and the rear kitchen contains a bread oven.
Local climate
Great Halfsbury Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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