East Panson Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 January 1986. Farmhouse.
East Panson Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- standing-step-yew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 January 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- East Panson Farmhouse, St. Giles on the Heath
- OS grid reference
- SX 361 923
- Coordinates
- 50.70775, -4.32193
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
East Panson Farmhouse is a farmhouse with a core dating from the 17th century, likely extended in the 18th century. It is constructed of cob on stone rubble footings, with a whitewashed and rendered exterior, and a corrugated asbestos roof that was formerly thatched. The building features a gabled left end and a hipped right end, along with a large projecting stone stack at the left end and an axial stack with a brick shaft.
The original layout may have consisted of two rooms with a through passage, where the stack of a hall or kitchen backed onto the passage, and an unheated service room beyond it. In a later phase, the service room was extended and heated at the left end, creating a kitchen beyond the passage and converting the former hall into a parlour. There is also an unheated rear left wing, likely from the same period, which may have served as a dairy with accommodation above.
A 20th-century stair has been added in the passage, replacing an earlier stair that existed in the rear left wing. The farmhouse is two storeys high and has an asymmetrical three-window front, with a 20th-century glazed porch leading into the through passage on the left. The windows are late 19th-century and 20th-century two- and three-light casements with glazing bars. The rear door of the passage is sheltered by a sloping slated roof supported by a stone wall to the left. Inside, there are 20th-century grates that are said to conceal earlier features, and the left-hand room is reported to have large joists hidden behind plaster. The roof features pegged trusses.
Local climate
East Panson 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 84% 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 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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