Corner Cottage Farmers Arms is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1989. Inn, cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Corner Cottage Farmers Arms
- WRENN ID
- little-dormer-violet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1989
- Type
- Inn, cottage
- Address
- Corner Cottage Farmers Arms, Woolfardisworthy, EX39 5QS
- OS grid reference
- SS 331 210
- Coordinates
- 50.96442, -4.37673
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Farmers Arms is an inn that is likely from the late 17th or 18th century, while the adjoining Corner Cottage may date from the 19th century. The building features rendered and whitewashed stone rubble walls. The right side of the inn has a hipped thatch roof, while the left side and the cottage have a slate roof, with the cottage also having a hipped end. There is a brick stack at the left end of both the inn and the cottage.
The inn has a two-room plan with the left room heated and a central entrance, although this layout has likely been significantly altered in the 20th century. The cottage may have a one or two-room plan with an entrance on the right.
The exterior is two storeys high. The Farmers Arms has an asymmetrical front with four windows; the left side, which is slated, is taller and features a large 20th-century three-light casement window on the first floor and two smaller two-light casements below. A 20th-century plank and part-glazed door is located to the left of center on the thatched side. At the right end, there is a lower addition that was previously an outbuilding. Corner Cottage has two late 19th-century six-pane sash windows on the first floor and a larger sash window below on the left, with a 20th-century plank door to the right. The interior of the Farmers Arms has mainly been modernized or altered in the 20th century.
Local climate
Corner Cottage Farmers Arms sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 6 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2014
- 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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