North Coombe Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 October 1987. Farmhouse.

North Coombe Farmhouse

WRENN ID
night-mantel-birch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Devon
Constituency
North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 October 1987
Type
Farmhouse
Address
North Coombe Farmhouse, North Coombe Lane, Witheridge
OS grid reference
SS 824 172
Coordinates
50.94254, -3.67404
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

North Coombe Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 15th or 16th century. It is constructed of random rubble with a hipped roof covered in asbestos slates and has two brick ridge stacks. The building has a three-room and through-passage plan, with indications of a former open hall.

The entrance front is two storeys high and features a symmetrical arrangement of windows, with two pairs of windows on each side. There are four 20th-century two-light casements, along with a two-light and a three-light casement from the 19th century. To the right, there is a section that is slightly set back, which houses a 19th-century dairy. The farmhouse has two door openings, one on the left and one on the right, with one of the doors located in a lean-to structure.

On the rear elevation, there is a narrow window opening that contains a two-light casement, as well as a four-light chamfered wooden mullioned window from the 16th or 17th century, and a 20th-century dormer. Inside, the farmhouse features interesting elements such as chamfered fireplace bressumers and ceiling beams, along with evidence of a smoke-blackened roof.

Local climate

North Coombe Farmhouse receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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