South Leigh Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1967. Farmhouse.
South Leigh Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- third-spire-burdock
- 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
- South Leigh Farmhouse, North Molton
- OS grid reference
- SS 714 286
- Coordinates
- 51.04296, -3.83536
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
South Leigh Farmhouse is a farmhouse that likely dates back to the 17th century, with possible additions from the 18th and 19th centuries. It was remodeled in the mid to late 20th century. The building is constructed from stone rubble and cob, and is almost entirely covered in cement render. It has a 20th-century asbestos-slate roof that was formerly thatched, and the roof is hipped to the left. There are brick stacks present.
The farmhouse is probably designed with a three-room and cross-passage layout, facing south, with the ground falling to the left. It likely includes a hall with an axial stack that backs onto the cross-passage, a former service area to the left with an external lateral stack at the rear, and a former inner room to the right with an end stack. There is probably a late 18th-century one-room addition at the left end and a 19th-century short addition that projects at right angles in front of the right end.
The building has two storeys and features an asymmetrical arrangement of windows on the front. There are four windows on the first floor and five on the ground floor, all of which are mid to late 20th-century wooden casements, mostly with two lights. A 19th-century gabled stone porch is located between the second and third windows from the right, featuring a small casement on the front and an entrance on the right side. The left-hand return of the right wing has a first-floor 20th-century two-light wooden casement and a ground-floor boarded door. The interior was not inspected due to denied access.
Local climate
South Leigh Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% 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 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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