West Libbear Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1988. Farmhouse.

West Libbear Farmhouse

WRENN ID
scarred-string-claret
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Torridge
Constituency
Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 March 1988
Type
Farmhouse
Address
West Libbear Farmhouse, Shebbear
OS grid reference
SS 447 067
Coordinates
50.83954, -4.20603
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

West Libbear Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the early to mid-17th century, with possible additions from the 19th century. It features rendered cob and rubble walls and a gable-ended slate roof, supported by three brick stacks—one at each end and one in the middle. The original layout likely consisted of a two-room-and-through-passage plan, with a hall on the lower right side and a stack backing onto the passage, while the lower room was heated by the end stack. The inner room on the right is probably a 19th-century addition, formerly an outbuilding, and there is also a 19th-century outshut at the rear.

The exterior is two storeys high with an asymmetrical front that has five windows, featuring mid to late 20th-century two, three, and four-light diamond leaded pane casements. The left end of the house is slightly recessed, and a 20th-century conservatory extends along most of the front, with glazed doors at each end.

Inside, the left-hand room has two chamfered ceiling beams with straight-cut stops. The old lintel over the fireplace has been cut into, likely to accommodate a range. There is a headbeam from an original partition between this room and the passage, with one surviving plank. The hall fireplace features a chamfered wooden lintel with hollow step stops and similar ceiling beams. Two original roof trusses remain over the hall, characterized by slightly curved feet and cranked collars that are halved in with notched joints, along with trenched purlins.

Local climate

West Libbear Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% 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 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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