Bakery and Detached Kitchen 2 Metres North-West of Northe Morte Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 June 1981. Bakery, kitchen.

Bakery and Detached Kitchen 2 Metres North-West of Northe Morte Farmhouse

WRENN ID
dusk-balcony-tallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Devon
Constituency
North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 June 1981
Type
Bakery, kitchen
OS grid reference
SS 460 455
Coordinates
51.1884, -4.20379
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The bakery and detached kitchen, located approximately 2 meters north-west of Northe Morte Farmhouse, likely dates from the late 17th century. It is constructed from Morte slatestone with some cob and features a hipped scantling decreasing slate roof. The building has a large axial stack with slated weathering, which has been heightened in brick, and a smaller stack for the copper at the lower end.

The structure has a rectangular plan with an outshut at the rear, which has partly corrugated and partly Roman tiled roofs, along with a slated lean-to roof at the lower end. It is a single-storey building, partly lofted at the upper end. The front has a ledged plank door with a two-light window to the left, which is patched with leaded panes. There is a blocked window opening at the upper end.

Inside, there is a large hearth with two ovens; the rear oven is larger and brick-lined, while the smaller cloam oven to the left has a rounded projection enclosed in the rear outshut. The slate flag floor remains intact. The interior features three smoke-blackened trusses with slightly curved principals and two tiers of purlins, all of which are entirely smoke-blackened. The building is unrestored.

Local climate

Bakery and Detached Kitchen 2 Metres North-West of Northe Morte Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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