Emmett Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1986. Farmhouse.

Emmett Farmhouse

WRENN ID
guardian-railing-cedar
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Devon
Constituency
North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 March 1986
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Emmett Farmhouse, Bishop's Tawton
OS grid reference
SS 605 256
Coordinates
51.01344, -3.98977
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Emmett Farmhouse is a farmhouse that likely dates from the 16th century, with remodeling from the 17th century. The upper end was rebuilt and extended in 1923 after a fire. The building is made of colourwashed rendered rubble and cob, topped with a slate roof that features a brick ridge stack. The right end has a thatched roof with a brick stack that has a lipped cap, and there is a lateral hall stack at the front with offsets and a tapered cap, which has been heightened in brick. To the left of the hall stack, there is a projecting bread oven with a slate canopy.

The farmhouse has two storeys and a five-window range. The left side of the hall stack features 20th-century fenestration, while the right side includes a 19th-century two-light casement window with six panes per light, and above it, there is a tall 19th-century two-light window with nine panes per light. To the right, there is another two-light window with twelve panes per light. The entrance has a four-panelled door with an overlight. At the rear of the thatched portion, there is a rubble lean-to with a 19th-century two-light window above, which has two panes per light, and the roof is made of both slate and corrugated asbestos.

Inside, there is no access to the roof space, but the hall features elaborately moulded beams with large bar stops that raise the ceiling height above the plastered downstand construction. This includes a moulded scroll-stepped bressumer at the lower end, suggesting that the lower end may have originally jutted out over a former open hall.

Local climate

Emmett 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 83% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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