Woolridge Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1988. Farmhouse.
Woolridge Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- frozen-outpost-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 March 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Woolridge Farmhouse, Dolton
- OS grid reference
- SS 558 119
- Coordinates
- 50.88865, -4.05057
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Woolridge Farmhouse is a former farmhouse dating from the early 17th century, possibly with earlier origins. It features plastered cob walls and a gable-ended thatch roof, with a rendered rubble axial stack. The building has a three-room plan with a baffle entry located in front of the axial stack, positioned between the left-hand room, which is likely the hall, and an unheated service room to the right. Adjacent to the farmhouse is a long barn, which is probably an 18th-century addition.
The exterior of the farmhouse is two storeys high with an asymmetrical front that has four windows, featuring small-paned two-light casements from the 19th and early 20th centuries. There is a slight projection to the left of centre in front of the baffle entry, which has a small single 20th-century light on the first floor. A 20th-century gabled porch with a plank door is located in front of this projection. At the right-hand end, there is a straight joint between the house and the long barn, which has a corrugated iron roof. The barn includes a single light 20th-century window to the left and a three-light 20th-century casement in the blocked cart entrance, flanked by two rubble buttresses, with a doorway to its right.
Inside, the hall and the left-hand room feature substantial cross beams, with the beams in the hall being chamfered. There is an open fireplace in the hall with a chamfered wooden lintel. The roof timbers may also be of interest.
Local climate
Woolridge Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings