Great Stert Farm House is a Grade II* listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 March 1960. A Post-Medieval Farm house.
Great Stert Farm House
- WRENN ID
- distant-bronze-fen
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- South Hams
- Constituency
- South West Devon MP: Rebecca Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 March 1960
- Type
- Farm house
- Period
- Post-Medieval
- Address
- Great Stert Farm House, Stert Lane, Sparkwell
- OS grid reference
- SX 597 575
- Coordinates
- 50.4008, -3.97422
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Great Stert Farm House is a farmhouse dating from the early 17th century, with a date of 1674 inscribed in the porch. It is constructed of plastered stone rubble with granite dressings and features a steeply pitched slate roof with gabled ends. The front is symmetrical, with two storeys and five bays. A central projecting gabled porch has a chamfered cambered arch granite doorway, and the inner doorway is similar, featuring the date 1674 above and a heavy panelled door. The building has three-light hollow-chamfered stone mullion windows and a large chimneystack on the right-hand (north) gable end, while the south gable end is slate hung.
Inside, there are four plain chamfered granite chimneypieces with stopped jambs, one of which has a cambered arch. A ground floor room at the south end contains a small section of an early 17th century moulded plaster frieze above the fireplace, and there are stopped and chamfered wooden doorframes throughout.
Local climate
Great Stert Farm House 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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