Fordbrook Farmhouse Including Outbuilding Adjoining North East is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 March 1960. Farmhouse.
Fordbrook Farmhouse Including Outbuilding Adjoining North East
- WRENN ID
- western-parapet-heron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Hams
- Constituency
- South West Devon MP: Rebecca Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 March 1960
- Type
- Farmhouse
- OS grid reference
- SX 540 521
- Coordinates
- 50.35107, -4.05285
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fordbrook Farmhouse, including an adjoining outbuilding, dates from the early 16th century. It is constructed of whitewashed stone rubble and features an asbestos slate hipped and half-hipped roof. The farmhouse has two storeys and a four-window range, with 18th and 19th century casements that include glazing bars. There is a 20th century glazed porch located off-center leading to a cross passage. A rendered chimney stack is positioned off-center, backing onto the cross passage, and there are outshuts at the rear.
The adjoining shippen, which is a later addition from the 17th century, is made of stone rubble and has a half-hipped corrugated iron roof. It features external stairs leading to a loft door with nail-studded doors. Inside the farmhouse, there is a chamfered ogee arched wooden door frame at the lower end in the cross passage, and a similar but moulded door frame at the higher end. The cross passage also contains chamfered beams and other exposed ceiling beams, along with wooden half newel stairs at the rear.
Local climate
Fordbrook Farmhouse Including Outbuilding Adjoining North East sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 77% 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 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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