Butstone Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1988. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.

Butstone Farmhouse

WRENN ID
broken-bailey-jackdaw
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
Butstone Farmhouse, Petrockstow, EX20 3ET
OS grid reference
SS 508 109
Coordinates
50.87874, -4.12156
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Butstone Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the early 19th century. It features rendered cob and rubble walls and has a gable-ended slate roof. The building has projecting rendered gable-end stacks with brick shafts, and there is a brick stack at the right-hand end of the rear outshut. The plan consists of a two-room layout, likely with an integral rear outshut, where the right-hand room is heated and serves functional purposes. The staircase rises from a central passageway between the two front rooms, with the left-hand room serving as the kitchen and the right-hand room as the parlour.

The exterior is two storeys high and has a symmetrical three-window front with early 19th-century 16-pane sash windows. At the centre, there is a contemporary latticed wooden porch that features a moulded cornice above the doorhood and a six-panel door behind it.

Inside, the farmhouse retains fairly complete joinery, including six-panel doors and a staircase with a column newel and stick balusters. The chimneypiece in the parlour is likely original and features a Regency basket grate.

Local climate

Butstone 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
  • Sale history — 5 transactions since 1997
  • Related listed building consents — 2 applications
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
  • 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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