Ensis Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1987. Farmhouse. 4 related planning applications.
Ensis Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- solemn-corridor-kestrel
- 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
- Ensis Farmhouse, Tawstock, EX31 3JT
- OS grid reference
- SS 560 264
- Coordinates
- 51.01913, -4.05308
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ensis Farmhouse is a 17th-century farmhouse constructed of rendered stone and cob, topped with a corrugated asbestos roof featuring gable ends. It has a stack at the right end and a rear lateral hall stack with offsets, a tapered cap, and a brick shaft. The layout consists of a three-room through-passage plan, although the passage now has a partition across it. The building is two storeys high and has a four-window range. The windows are 19th-century additions, all featuring two-light casements with eight panes per light, except for the three-light casements on either side of a slated gabled porch that includes a six-panelled door. Inside, there are chamfered lintels above the hall and lower fireplaces.
Local climate
Ensis 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 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
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- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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