West Okewill Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 November 1984. Farmhouse.
West Okewill Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- silver-ember-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 November 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- West Okewill Farmhouse, East Down
- OS grid reference
- SS 582 396
- Coordinates
- 51.1384, -4.02722
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
West Okewill Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 17th century or earlier, which has undergone significant renovations. It features a rendered shale exterior and a gable-ended slate roof. The building has a three-cell and cross passage plan, with a later kitchen wing that projects at a right angle to the lower end.
The farmhouse is two storeys high, with the upper storey containing five windows, all of which are 20th-century casements. There is a stack at the gable end that heats the inner room, along with a large rendered lateral stack on the front wall of the 'hall', which has set-offs and a pronounced batter. A lean-to slate roof covers a projecting bay with a 20th-century casement window at the front of the hall on the right, and over the porch to the left of the stack.
A staircase turret projects to the left of the door, located at the angle of the kitchen wing. The front wall at the higher end projects and may have been rebuilt. There is a 20th-century door at the higher end with two inserted casements to the right. Inside, the former hall features chamfered floor beams with moulded stops.
Local climate
West Okewill Farmhouse 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 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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