Higher Yendamore Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 February 1989. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Higher Yendamore Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- scattered-frieze-torch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 February 1989
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Higher Yendamore Farmhouse, Merton, EX20 3DU
- OS grid reference
- SS 542 121
- Coordinates
- 50.89058, -4.07399
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Higher Yendamore Farmhouse is a farmhouse that likely dates back to the early 17th century, with a 19th-century addition. It features rendered cob and rubble walls and has a gable-ended asbestos slate roof. There is a rendered rubble axial stack and a brick stack at the right gable end. The layout consists of a three-room plan with a through passage, where the lower end is to the left. The hall stack backs onto the passage and has a winder stair behind it, although there is conflicting evidence regarding whether the stack is an original feature. If it is an insertion, the house may originally date to the late medieval period but was heavily remodeled in the early 17th century. The front of the hall includes a small window bay, while the inner room is heated by a gable end fireplace, and the lower room remains unheated. A small single-storey heated wing has been added to the front of the lower room.
The exterior of the farmhouse is two storeys high and has an asymmetrical front with three windows, featuring two and three-light 19th-century and early to mid-20th-century casements. There is a single-storey hall window projection to the right of centre with a lean-to slate roof, and to its left, there is an open-fronted porch with a pentice roof, behind which is a 19th-century plank door. A single-storey wing projects from the left-hand end of the building.
Inside, the hall has an open fireplace with a chamfered wooden lintel that rests on a curved wooden corbel. Behind the stack, there is a short section of plank and muntin screen, with chamfered muntins that have step stops, suggesting it may have once extended further. The inner room features a chamfered unstopped beam, and there is a roughly chamfered doorframe leading to the lower room. The roof consists of 17th-century trusses, likely raised crucks, with trenched purlins and collars that are halved on with dovetail joints.
Local climate
Higher Yendamore Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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