Sorley Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 July 1989. Farmhouse. 6 related planning applications.
Sorley Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- long-barrel-wagtail
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Hams
- Constituency
- South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 July 1989
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Sorley Farmhouse, Churchstow, TQ7 4BP
- OS grid reference
- SX 726 466
- Coordinates
- 50.30582, -3.78932
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sorley Farmhouse is an early 19th-century farmhouse. The front is rendered, while the rest of the building is constructed of rubble. It has slate roofs. The house is a large, square block with a central valley to its parallel hipped roofs. It has two storeys, a cellar, and an attic. A single-storey, flat-roofed extension on the front is not considered to be of special interest. The front and rear facades each have three windows. The front ground floor features a three-light glazing-bar casement window and a tripartite sash window, above which are three sixteen-pane sash windows. A small 20th-century dormer is centrally positioned in the roof. A 20th-century door is present. The rear of the house has sixteen-pane sash windows on both levels, with a central part-glazed door leading to a projecting conservatory. The left end has two sixteen-pane sash windows, and a small window above the door, set in deep reveals. A wide plank door to the basement is located low down on the left end. The right end has a sixteen-pane sash window and a smaller eight-pane single light at ground level, also in deep reveals. Most windows are surrounded by stone voussoirs. There is one large rendered eaves stack at the left end of the building, and two similar stacks at the right end. The eaves are boxed. The interior of the house has not been inspected.
Local climate
Sorley Farmhouse receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 4 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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 — 6 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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