Higher Crabdown Farmhouse and Barn to North West is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1988. A C17 Farmhouse.

Higher Crabdown Farmhouse and Barn to North West

WRENN ID
idle-storey-jet
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
Higher Crabdown Farmhouse and Barn to North West, Ashreigney
OS grid reference
SS 616 152
Coordinates
50.91971, -3.96998
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Higher Crabdown Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the early 17th century, possibly with earlier origins, and includes a 20th-century addition. The building features plastered cob walls and a gable-ended thatch roof, supported by three brick stacks—one axial and one at each end on projecting rubble bases. The layout consists of a three-room-and-through-passage plan, with the lower end located to the right. The hall stack is positioned against the passage, while the lower room and inner rooms are heated by gable end stacks.

The exterior is two storeys high with an asymmetrical front that has four windows. The windows are primarily 19th-century small-paned casements, with two-light casements on the first floor and three-light casements on the ground floor. The two right-hand windows are late 20th-century two-light casements without glazing bars. A 20th-century gabled porch is located to the right of centre, featuring a glazed door that leads into the passage. Additionally, there is a 20th-century two-storey addition projecting from the left-hand end of the farmhouse.

Adjacent to the farmhouse is a barn, likely dating from the 18th century, which extends in line with the house. The interior has been largely altered by 20th-century modernization, but some original features remain, such as chamfered and hollow step-stopped cross beams in the hall. The fireplaces have been blocked, and the roof timbers are not visible on the first floor and are unlikely to be original.

Local climate

Higher Crabdown Farmhouse and Barn to North West sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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