Rollstone Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 October 1988. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Rollstone Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- blind-bailey-smoke
- 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
- Rollstone Farmhouse, Alwington, EX39 5DA
- OS grid reference
- SS 411 232
- Coordinates
- 50.98625, -4.2652
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rollstone Farmhouse is a late 17th-century farmhouse, with an early 18th-century bay added to the right. A shippon to the left was remodelled in the mid-19th century and 20th century into a separate dwelling. The farmhouse is constructed of coursed slatestone rubble with colourwashed render to the first floor. It has a gabled slate roof, with artificial slates to the rear, and rendered stone ridge and end stacks.
The original plan comprised two units, extended to three with a blocked through-passage to the right of the central hall. The farmhouse presents as a two-storey, five-window range. A gabled porch, built in the mid-19th century, features a round-arched outer doorway and a 20th-century inner door. The windows are 20th-century two- and four-light casements, set within flat rendered arches. A dairy outshut, rendered, extends to the rear. The shippon to the left has been remodelled as a two-storey dwelling.
Inside, the ground floor includes fireplaces with chamfered bressummers. One room has stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops, and a plank door set in a beaded frame leads to the dairy, which has a stone-flag floor in the rear outshut. Another room has a plank door set within a similar architrave. The roof structure features A-frame trusses with pegged collars.
Local climate
Rollstone 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 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings