Wickmayes Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1989. House, farmhouse.
Wickmayes Farm
- WRENN ID
- salt-balcony-sage
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1989
- Type
- House, farmhouse
- Address
- Wickmayes Farm, Cookbury
- OS grid reference
- SS 389 051
- Coordinates
- 50.82314, -4.28721
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wickmayes Farm is a house that was formerly a farmhouse, dating from the early to mid 17th century, with extensions and alterations made in the late 19th century. The building features rendered cob and stone rubble walls and has a gable-ended slate roof. There are brick axial stacks, one of which is located at the right gable on a projecting rendered rubble base. The original plan was a three-room-and-through-passage layout, but the lower end has seemingly been rebuilt as an outbuilding. The hall stack backs onto the passage. In the late 19th century, either the hall or the inner room was reduced in size to create space for a new stair hall between the two rooms, and a two-storey extension was added at the rear.
The exterior is two storeys high with an asymmetrical front featuring four windows, which are late 19th century three-light small-paned casements. There is a lean-to open-fronted porch from the 19th century on the left, which has a plank door behind it in a likely contemporary Tudor-arched doorframe. To the right of the centre is an early 20th-century porch with a part-glazed door. The left-hand end of the building serves as a barn and is considerably lower than the main structure.
Inside, the passage's rear doorway has a 17th-century chamfered wooden doorframe with mason's mitres. The hall contains a large open fireplace with a chamfered and straight-cut stopped wooden lintel and two ovens. The inner room's fireplace also features a chamfered wooden lintel with ogee stops. Some wide oak floorboards, which may date back to the 17th century, are present on the first floor. The higher end of the house includes late 19th-century joinery, including the stairs and four-panel doors. The roof structure was replaced in the 19th century.
Local climate
Wickmayes Farm 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 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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