Lower Rollestone Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1987. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
Lower Rollestone Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- small-bronze-hawk
- 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
- Lower Rollestone Farmhouse, Tawstock, EX31 3JF
- OS grid reference
- SS 566 275
- Coordinates
- 51.02933, -4.0451
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lower Rollestone Farmhouse is a farmhouse that likely dates from the 18th century. It is constructed of rendered stone and cob, topped with a thatch roof featuring brick stacks at the gable ends. The building has an overall L-shaped plan, with the front range consisting of a single room on each side of a lobby entry, and a service wing extending at right angles from the rear left end.
The farmhouse is two storeys high and has a three-window range featuring 19th and 20th century fenestration. There are two-light casements with six panes per light above a three-light casement to the left, and two-light casements with eight panes per light to the right of the porch, which has a cambered timber lintel and a four-panelled inner door with glazed upper panels.
At the right gable end, there is an outshut with a 20-paned hornless sash window. The porch has a slate pentice roof and a plank door on the left side of the rear service wing. The service wing has been extended at the gable end by a single-storey kitchen addition, which also has a slate roof and a brick stack at its gable end. The interior of the farmhouse is not accessible.
Local climate
Lower Rollestone 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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