Britton's Farmhouse and Attached Shippon is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 October 1988. Farmhouse. 4 related planning applications.

Britton's Farmhouse and Attached Shippon

WRENN ID
ragged-gable-pigeon
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
Britton's Farmhouse and Attached Shippon, Parkham, EX39 5PD
OS grid reference
SS 392 228
Coordinates
50.98233, -4.2913
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Britton's Farmhouse and attached shippon is a farmhouse dating from the late 17th century to early 18th century, with alterations made in the late 19th century. The building features colourwashed render over stone and cob, topped with a late 19th-century gabled slate roof. There is a lateral stack at the center of the front wall made of rendered stone, finished in 19th and 20th-century brick, and a left end stack of rendered stone finished in mid-19th-century brick. The farmhouse has a three-unit plan with a through-passage to the right of the central hall and an early 19th-century rear wing. It stands two storeys high and has a three-window range.

A late 19th-century stone porch with brick dressings leads to a moulded semi-circular arched doorway, which contains a late 19th-century six-panelled inner door, two of the panels being glazed. There are flat rendered arches above a late 19th-century plank loft door to the shippon on the right, and late 19th-century two-light casements with glazing bars, along with a one-light casement to the left of the door. A doorway to the shippon is located in the right gable end. The early 19th-century rear wing has a rendered stone end stack. Inside, there is a stop-chamfered beam in the hall. The first floor has not been inspected, but external evidence and information from the occupant suggest that the roof trusses have been replaced.

Local climate

Britton's Farmhouse and Attached Shippon 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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