Little Pillhead Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 May 1986. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Little Pillhead Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- knotted-sandstone-willow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 May 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Little Pillhead Farmhouse, Westleigh, EX39 4PR
- OS grid reference
- SS 493 263
- Coordinates
- 51.01694, -4.14974
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Little Pillhead Farmhouse is a 17th century or earlier farmhouse that is now used for holiday accommodation. It is constructed of rendered stone and cob, topped with a thatched roof featuring gable ends and brick stacks. The farmhouse has a front lateral hall stack with slated offsets and a tall brick shaft. It follows a three-room through-passage plan and is two storeys high, with a three-window range. The windows are 2-light casements with six panes per light; all ground floor windows are 2-light casements with six panes, except for the hall window, which has three panes per light. A slate pentice roof covers the porch, which has a six-panelled door leading to the through-passage doorway. At the rear, there is a continuous stone rubble outshut, partially covered with a slate roof and partially with corrugated iron. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Little Pillhead 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 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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