Wrescombe Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 June 1977. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
Wrescombe Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- guardian-clay-owl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Hams
- Constituency
- South West Devon MP: Rebecca Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 June 1977
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Wrescombe Farmhouse, Newton and Noss, PL8 2NL
- OS grid reference
- SX 565 501
- Coordinates
- 50.33359, -4.01754
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wrescombe Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from 1829. It is constructed of stone rubble, with the front of the building covered in asbestos slate. The roof is of bitumenised slate, with gabled ends. The house has two floors and three bays. It features sash windows with glazing bars. A central panelled door is sheltered by a 20th-century slated porch. Stone chimney stacks are situated at the gable ends.
Local climate
Wrescombe 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 89% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 7 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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