Ford Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 October 1988. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.

Ford Farmhouse

WRENN ID
other-plinth-jet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Devon
Constituency
North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 October 1988
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Ford Farmhouse, Chulmleigh, EX18 7AH
OS grid reference
SS 670 159
Coordinates
50.9275, -3.89243
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Ford Farmhouse is a mid-19th century farmhouse built of painted rendered stone rubble. It features an original slate roof with gable end brick stacks, deep eaves, and lion's head guttering. The building has a symmetrical double depth plan that includes two principal front rooms, a central entrance and staircase, and service rooms at the back.

The exterior is two storeys high with a three-window range and retains its original fenestration. There are tripartite sashes flanking a 12-paned sash window. The ground floor has canted bay windows with 12-paned sashes and 4-paned sidelight sashes beside the central doorway, which is adorned with a bracketed moulded entablature and incised decoration on the pilasters. The door itself is a four-panelled design, with the upper two panels being glazed.

Inside, the farmhouse features 19th-century joinery, an intact staircase, panelled doors, and chimneypieces. Ford Farmhouse is a good example of a modest and remarkably unspoilt mid-19th century farmhouse.

Local climate

Ford 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 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% 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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