Higher Velwell Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 May 1986. A Post-Medieval Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
Higher Velwell Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- other-groin-azure
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Hams
- Constituency
- South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 May 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Period
- Post-Medieval
- Address
- Higher Velwell Farmhouse, Rattery, TQ9 6AD
- OS grid reference
- SX 763 629
- Coordinates
- 50.45369, -3.74313
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Higher Velwell Farmhouse is a 17th-century farmhouse situated in Rattery. It is built of slate rubble, with parts roughcast, and has a slate roof with gabled ends. The building is L-shaped. It has two storeys, featuring 19th-century casement windows, some retaining earlier chamfered wooden lintels. One window has a stone hood mould above it. A 20th-century glazed door is set within an hood in the angle of the building. Rendered chimney stacks are positioned at the gable ends. A chamfered lintel is visible above a fireplace in the east wing.
Local climate
Higher Velwell Farmhouse receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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 — 5 transactions since 2016
- 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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