New Swann Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 October 1988. Farmhouse.

New Swann Farmhouse

WRENN ID
gentle-porch-ivy
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
New Swann Farmhouse, Alwington
OS grid reference
SS 385 232
Coordinates
50.98558, -4.30151
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

New Swann Farmhouse is a farmhouse, now a house, built around 1825. It features colourwashed render over coursed slatestone rubble and has a hipped slate roof with cast-iron guttering at the front, decorated with lion's mask motifs. The building has a double-depth plan and is two storeys tall, with a symmetrical three-window range. A 19th-century gabled porch with a round-arched entry leads to a half-glazed inner door that has a decorative fanlight. There are flat rendered arches above 30-pane sash windows on the ground floor and late 19th-century horned 12-pane sash windows on the first floor. The side walls have 36-pane sashes, and there is a 20th-century outshut at the rear. Inside, there is an early 19th-century dog-leg staircase with a landing, featuring stick balusters on an open string and a wreathed handrail, along with panelled doors. The date 1825 is inscribed on one of the roof trusses.

Local climate

New Swann Farmhouse 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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