West Lopthorne is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1989. Farmhouse.
West Lopthorne
- WRENN ID
- western-trefoil-amber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1989
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- West Lopthorne, Thornbury
- OS grid reference
- SS 394 077
- Coordinates
- 50.84711, -4.28151
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
West Lopthorne is a farmhouse dating from the early 18th century, with a later addition from the late 18th or 19th century. The building features rendered cob and stone rubble walls, with a gable-ended roof that is thatched on the right side and slated on the left. There is a projecting rendered rubble stack at the right gable end. The layout is somewhat unclear, but it seems to consist of an earlier two-room range on the right and a two-room addition on the left, which has a lean-to built against its front.
The exterior is two storeys high and has an asymmetrical three-window front. The windows include 20th-century three-light casements, with earlier windows on the ground floor to the right. A gabled 20th-century porch is located at the right-hand end of the slated section, featuring a 20th-century glazed door. A lean-to is built against the left-hand side of the front, with a dormer window in the roof above. The interior was inaccessible at the time of the survey.
Local climate
West Lopthorne 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 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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