Head Barton is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 January 1988. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Head Barton
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-beam-peregrine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 January 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Head Barton, Chittlehamholt, EX37 9HA
- OS grid reference
- SS 666 181
- Coordinates
- 50.94772, -3.90002
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Head Barton is a farmhouse built in 1872, as indicated by the datestone. The structure is made of unrendered stone rubble with brick dressings and quoins. It features a hipped slate roof with rendered brick stacks that have oversailing brick courses at the capping on each side, along with a large stack at the hipped end of the rear service wing. The house has a rectangular plan, consisting of two rooms deep with the principal front room on each side of the stairhall, and a service wing located at the rear right side.
The building stands two storeys high and has a three-window range. All original windows are intact, featuring 16-paned hornless sashes with slightly cambered brick lintels and brick quoins. There is a gabled slate roof over a stone rubble porch, which has a chambered brick lintel, brick quoins, and small four-paned windows on each side. The inner door is six-panelled, with the upper four panels being glazed. The datestone reads "MR 1872," and there are tripartite sashes on the right side of the rear wing.
The interior remains largely unaltered since the 19th century. Head Barton is one of the more substantial farmhouses built by the Rolle family and is prominently situated overlooking the River Mole.
Local climate
Head Barton sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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- 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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