South Hill Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1988. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
South Hill Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- over-lime-magpie
- 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
- South Hill Farmhouse, Sheepwash, EX21 5HU
- OS grid reference
- SS 466 069
- Coordinates
- 50.84179, -4.17882
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
South Hill Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the late 17th century or early 18th century, with additions from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. It features plastered cob and rubble walls and a gable-ended thatch roof, supported by two brick gable-end stacks. The layout consists of a two-room plan with a small central unheated room, a passage running in front of it, and a staircase to the left. Each of the outer rooms has a gable-end fireplace. There is a 20th-century outshut behind the left-hand room and a lean-to from the 18th or 19th century against the left-hand end. The exterior is two storeys high, with a regular three-window front featuring 19th-century three-light casements. A central lean-to porch with a wood shingle roof leads to a 20th-century plank door. At the rear, there is an outshut behind the left-hand end with a stair projection adjoining it. The interior does not show any pre-19th-century features, which may be hidden, but the roof structure consists of rough straight principals from the 18th or 19th century. This house has seen little alteration since the 19th century and remains in an unspoilt condition.
Local climate
South Hill 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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