Foxhole Manor is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 January 1986. Farmhouse.

Foxhole Manor

WRENN ID
little-forge-briar
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Torridge
Constituency
Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 January 1986
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Foxhole Manor, Halwill
OS grid reference
SX 416 969
Coordinates
50.75088, -4.24564
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Foxhole Manor is a farmhouse dating from the late 17th century. It is constructed of colourwashed rendered cob on stone rubble footings, topped with a turnerized rag slate roof that is hipped at the left end and gabled at the right end of the main range, with a hipped rear wing. The main range features an axial stack with a brick shaft on the left and a stone stack with a brick shaft at the right end. The layout consists of three rooms and a through passage, with the hall and inner room heated by the axial stack. The inner room seems to have served as a kitchen at one time, and the lower end is heated. At the rear of the through passage, there is a right wing that is likely an 18th-century addition. Additionally, a single-storey lean-to at the angle between the wing and the main range is probably a late 19th or 20th-century addition.

The building is two storeys high and has a long, asymmetrical front with five windows. The through passage doorway is located to the right, leading to an open porch with a slate roof supported by granite monoliths. There are 20th-century French windows on the left side of the front, and a small 12-pane 19th-century casement window to the left of the front door, which retains its stanchions. The remaining windows are regular 20th-century three-light casements.

Inside, the hall features a fireplace with ashlar jambs and a replaced lintel. The inner room has two roughly hewn cross beams and a fireplace with ashlar jambs and a chamfered lintel. The through passage is slated, and there are 20th-century roof trusses. The unusual plan, with the hall stack against the inner wall, is notable for the region and for Devon as a whole.

Local climate

Foxhole Manor sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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