Horsecombe Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 February 1974. A C18 Farmhouse. 4 related planning applications.
Horsecombe Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- empty-stronghold-quill
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Hams
- Constituency
- South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 February 1974
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Horsecombe Farmhouse, Salcombe, TQ8 8NF
- OS grid reference
- SX 727 399
- Coordinates
- 50.24576, -3.78581
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Horsecombe Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from around the 18th century, possibly with earlier origins. It features a front made of roughly coursed stone that has been limewashed, and it has a wood ogee bracket eaves cornice. The roof is half-hipped and the building has two storeys with three windows. The windows are sash types with exposed frames, although the ground floor windows have been converted to casements. These windows have red brick cambered heads, which are partly painted black.
Inside, there is a wide fireplace with a hewn beam, a window with seats and wide sunk panelled shutters, and two-panel doors, including one leading to the attic that retains its H hinges with straps. The roof structure includes pine trusses with half-lapped collars. The farmhouse is said to have references in the Domesday Book.
Local climate
Horsecombe Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 1 freeze-thaw cycle a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows 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 — 4 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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