Penberthys Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 April 1987. Farmhouse.
Penberthys Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- eastward-niche-gilt
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 April 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Penberthys Farmhouse, Arlington
- OS grid reference
- SS 618 417
- Coordinates
- 51.15861, -3.9774
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Penberthys Farmhouse is an early 19th-century tenement farmhouse. It is constructed of stone rubble, with the facade and left gable end finished in slate hanging. The farmhouse features a slate roof with gable end stone rubble stacks; the right stack has a drip, while the left is rendered. There is a hipped asbestos slate roof on a former outbuilding at the left end. The layout includes a principal room with small service rooms at the rear on either side of a wide central staircase that fills the entrance passage. The kitchen and former outbuilding have been converted to form part of the dwelling in the lower range at the left end. There is a gable-ended single-storey dairy projection at the rear. The building is two storeys tall and has a symmetrical three-window arrangement with two-light casements. The outer upper storey casements have six panes per light, while the other windows feature margin glazing bars. A brick porch with a slate lean-to roof leads to the entrance, which has a four-panelled inner door with glazed upper panels. The lower range to the left, incorporated into the dwelling, has a loft door above an infilled cart entrance and 19th-century two-light casements with eight panes per light above a small window to the left of the door. Inside, the 19th-century joinery is mostly intact.
Local climate
Penberthys Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,160 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% 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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