Butterwell Opposite Home Farm is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 July 1989. A Victorian Trough.
Butterwell Opposite Home Farm
- WRENN ID
- last-lime-root
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Hams
- Constituency
- South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 July 1989
- Type
- Trough
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Butterwell Opposite Home Farm, Churchstow
- OS grid reference
- SX 712 456
- Coordinates
- 50.29707, -3.80859
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Butterwell, located opposite Home Farm in Churchstow, is likely from the 19th century, though it may be older. It features a slate-stone and granite trough set within a deep niche in the boundary wall. The niche is approximately 2 meters high, 1.5 meters wide at the front, and 1.25 meters deep, with a stone floor and a flat stone slab roof covered in organic growth. At the back, there is a 19th-century plank door on strap hinges, although one hinge is missing as of October 1988. This door provides access to a square trough that is filled with running water, sourced from a spring at the back. An external lead overflow pipe runs down from the trough. The overall width of the structure is about 2.5 meters, making it a more complete version than is typically found.
Local climate
Butterwell Opposite Home Farm 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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