Court Farm Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Teignbridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 August 1955. Inn. 4 related planning applications.
Court Farm Inn
- WRENN ID
- grey-grate-martin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Teignbridge
- Constituency
- Newton Abbot MP: Martin Wrigley (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 August 1955
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- Court Farm Inn, Abbotskerswell, TQ12 5NY
- OS grid reference
- SX 856 687
- Coordinates
- 50.50713, -3.61435
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Court Farm Inn is an inn that was originally a farmhouse, dating from the 17th century and extended, likely in 1721, by James Tuckett. It has been altered in the 20th century. The building features sandstone and limestone rubble walls topped with a half-hipped slate roof. There are two rendered axial stacks, one to the right of center and another towards the right end, which was originally a gable end stack. A small rendered lateral stack is located at the front towards the left-hand end, and at the rear of that end, there are two brick chimney shafts set in from the eaves.
Originally, the layout consisted of three rooms and a through-passage, with the lower room on the right, a hall stack backing onto the passage, and the lower room heated by the gable end stack. There is a newel staircase projecting at the rear of the hall. A plaque on the front of the porch indicates that the house was "rebuilt" in 1721, which likely refers to the porch and the one-room extension at either end of the house. A 19th-century barn extension is located at the left-hand end.
The inn is two storeys high with an asymmetrical seven-window front and a two-storey gabled porch to the right of center. All windows are 20th-century three-light casements with small panes and wooden lintels, likely set in 18th-century openings. The porch window is a two-light design. Between the two right-hand windows on the ground floor is a 20th-century part-glazed door, with a 19th-century panelled door to the far right. Above the porch window is a stone plaque stating, "This house was rebuilt by James Tuckett the Elder, Anno Dom 1721." The porch features a rubble round-headed arch. Inside the porch, there is a 17th-century square-headed ovolo-moulded oak doorframe leading to the former passage, along with a contemporary panelled oak door. At the rear, there is a rectangular stair projection to the right of center, featuring a 17th-century three-light ovolo-moulded wood mullion window. Similar windows are located on either side of the projection on the first floor and on the ground floor to the left of it. The interior includes a modernized open fireplace in the hall, and at the rear of the hall leading to the stair projection is a 17th-century chamfered wood door-frame with a depressed four-centred arch.
Local climate
Court Farm Inn 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 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% 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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- Related listed building consents — 4 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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