Ware Farmhouse and Adjoining Outbuildings to South East is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1961. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.

Ware Farmhouse and Adjoining Outbuildings to South East

WRENN ID
last-hammer-brook
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Hams
Constituency
South West Devon MP: Rebecca Smith (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 February 1961
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Ware Farmhouse and Adjoining Outbuildings to South East, PL21 0NZ
OS grid reference
SX 679 557
Coordinates
50.38714, -3.85945
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Ware Farmhouse and adjoining outbuildings date from around the 16th century, with substantial remodelling in the late 18th century. The building is constructed of stone rubble with a slate roof featuring gabled and hipped ends. It originally comprised three rooms and a through-passage, with a rear lateral hall and lower end stacks, later extended with rear outshuts. A restored chimney stack is located at the higher left-hand gable. The main farmhouse is a long five-window range with sash windows, many with glazing bars dating to the 18th or early 19th century. A hall window on the ground floor, centrally positioned, features wooden mullions and six narrow lights with leaded panes set within a cambered arch. A hipped roof porch covers the through-passage doorway to the right. An inserted late 18th to early 19th century flush panel door, set within a wooden lattice porch, is on the left-hand side. A probable smoking chamber is situated at the rear of the lower end, adjacent to the lateral stack, with a gabled roof and a tall, narrow opening featuring a carbelled roof with a flue.

The interior includes a round-arched granite doorway in the through-passage, rebeted to the door, leading to a lower service room and now providing access to the loft stairs, which are fitted with splat balusters. The hall has roughly-hewn ceiling beams and a blocked fireplace on the rear wall. An 18th-century stair hall was inserted into an inner room, incorporating a staircase and a side cupboard with a Chinese Chippendale openwork panel. The roof structure is of 18th-century design, with principals crossed and halved at the apex and side-pegged collars. The remains of one early truss survive over the lower end, displaying mortices for a collar and threaded purlins, with curved feet exposed in the room below.

A circa 18th-century dairy wing projects at the lower end, to the front right, with a loft above. It is constructed of stone rubble with an asbestos slate hipped roof and features an external staircase leading to a loft door. A lean-to is attached to the end wall, incorporating pigeon holes.

Local climate

Ware Farmhouse and Adjoining Outbuildings to South East receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% 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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