Smythencott Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1988. A Early C18 House.
Smythencott Farm
- WRENN ID
- second-span-linden
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 March 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Smythencott Farm, Winkleigh
- OS grid reference
- SS 646 108
- Coordinates
- 50.88088, -3.92506
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Smythencott Farm is a small house dating from the early 18th century, with a 20th-century addition and alterations. The building features rendered cob walls and a thatched roof, which is hipped at the left end and gabled at the right. There are brick stacks at both gable ends, with the left stack being brick and the right stack being a projecting rendered rubble with a brick shaft. Originally, the house had a two-room plan, with a smaller unheated room on the left that had a stack inserted. In the 20th century, the partition between the two rooms was removed and stairs were added. A single-storey addition was also added to the rear in the 20th century.
The exterior is two storeys high, with a regular two-window front featuring 20th-century two and three-light casements. There is a thatched roof open-fronted porch from the 20th century to the left of centre, with a glazed door behind it. A small outbuilding, likely from the 18th or 19th century, is located against the right gable-end wall.
Inside, the right-hand fireplace has a rough wooden lintel and a cloam oven, and the principal rafters are insubstantial and straight.
Local climate
Smythencott Farm 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 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% 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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