Higher Winsham is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 November 1985. House.
Higher Winsham
- WRENN ID
- lost-gable-dust
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 November 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Higher Winsham, Braunton
- OS grid reference
- SS 500 391
- Coordinates
- 51.13172, -4.14471
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Higher Winsham is a house, formerly a farmhouse, likely dating from the 16th century. It is constructed of whitewashed rubble and cob, topped with a thatched roof featuring gable end brick stacks. The house has a large lateral hall stack on the front, with the upper part set diagonally in brick. The layout follows a three-cell cross-passage plan. The south front displays a range of three windows: from left to right, there are two 2-light casements, with the left one having four panes in each light and the right one having two panes in each light. Above these, there is a fixed 6-paned light over four 2-light casements, with the three to the left having two panes in each light and the right one having six panes in each light. There is a 20th-century glazed porch and a small lean-to extension added to the right.
Local climate
Higher Winsham 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 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% 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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