Woodroberts Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1988. Farmhouse.
Woodroberts Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- tangled-mortar-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 March 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Woodroberts Farmhouse, Winkleigh
- OS grid reference
- SS 624 103
- Coordinates
- 50.87655, -3.95631
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Woodroberts Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the early to mid 17th century, with a late 18th or early 19th century addition. It features plastered cob walls and a gable-ended thatch roof, supported by three brick stacks—one at each gable end and one axial. The main range currently has a three-room plan, although the right-hand end room is very narrow and heated, suggesting it may be an addition since the stack from the adjoining room projects into it. The two rooms on the left are roughly equal in size, each with a fireplace in the end wall, and there is a central through-passage. A two-storey lean-to was added along the rear wall in the late 18th or early 19th century.
The exterior is two storeys high with an asymmetrical four-window front. On the first floor, there are three 3-light late 18th or early 19th century leaded pane casements, and a similar 4-light one on the ground floor to the left. The right side features 20th century 2-light casements on each floor and a 3-light one to the right of centre on the ground floor. A 19th or early 20th century part-glazed door is located at the centre. The rear lean-to also includes some leaded lights.
Inside, the left-hand room has chamfered and hollow step-stopped cross beams, while the right-hand end room features a chamfered axial beam and a chamfered wooden lintel over the fireplace. Three original roof trusses remain, consisting of straight principals with trenched purlins and collars halved on with notched lap joints. The house retains a very traditional appearance both internally and externally, with other original features like fireplaces likely still present but concealed.
Local climate
Woodroberts Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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