Huntsdown Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 January 1986. House. 1 related planning application.

Huntsdown Farmhouse

WRENN ID
rough-granite-amber
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Torridge
Constituency
Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 January 1986
Type
House
Address
Huntsdown Farmhouse, Broadwoodwidger, PL15 9RU
OS grid reference
SX 375 895
Coordinates
50.68317, -4.30154
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Huntsdown Farmhouse is a house that likely has an 18th-century core with 19th-century remodelling. It is constructed from rendered, colourwashed cob on stone rubble footings and features a thatched roof with gables at both ends and stone stacks at the ends. The original layout probably consisted of two rooms with a through passage or cross passage, where the hall on the right is slightly larger than the left-hand room.

In the early 19th century, the passage was altered to include a stair and a small service room that was previously used as a dairy. Access from the hall to the left-hand heated room is provided through a passage in front of the stair and dairy. A lean-to structure may have been added to the rear right at the same time. The farmhouse has two storeys and a symmetrical three-window front, featuring a central gabled 20th-century porch.

The ground floor windows are late 19th-century or early 20th-century sashes with four panes, while the first-floor windows consist of three two-light casements with two panes per light, likely from the 20th century. Inside, there are 20th-century fireplaces, and the ground floor room on the right has a boxed-in ceiling beam.

Local climate

Huntsdown 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 84% 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 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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