Fortescue's Ash is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 October 1988. Farmhouse.
Fortescue's Ash
- WRENN ID
- late-alcove-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 October 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Fortescue's Ash, Parkham
- OS grid reference
- SS 365 208
- Coordinates
- 50.96339, -4.32886
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fortescue's Ash is a farmhouse, now a house, dating from 1681, with alterations made around 1980. The building is constructed of coursed slatestone rubble, with colourwashed render over a cob first floor. It features a gabled slate roof that is hipped at the front of the left wing. The right end has a large 17th-century stone stack with drip courses, which is finished in colourwashed 19th-century brick, along with a similar ridge stack and end stack on the front of the left wing. The structure is L-shaped and has two storeys with a two-window range. There are flat rendered arches over a 20th-century door next to the left wing and 20th-century casement windows. Although an interior inspection was not possible, it is likely to be of interest.
Local climate
Fortescue's Ash sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% 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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- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2001
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