Higher Northcott Including Barn Adjoining to South is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1988. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.

Higher Northcott Including Barn Adjoining to South

WRENN ID
second-jade-primrose
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
Higher Northcott Including Barn Adjoining to South, EX18 7PR
OS grid reference
SS 597 147
Coordinates
50.91517, -3.99627
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a farmhouse with an adjoining barn, dating from around the early 17th century, possibly with earlier medieval origins. Later alterations and additions were made in the late 17th or early 18th century, as well as in the 19th and 20th centuries. The structure is primarily built of plastered cob walls, with a gable ended thatched roof. It features a brick lateral stack at the front of the left-hand end, and a rendered rubble axial stack with a brick shaft built in front.

The original plan was of a three-room-and-through-passage design, with the lower end of the house to the left. The hall is heated by an axial stack, with a window bay to the front. A lower room is heated by a corner stack, which is likely a later 18th-century insertion. An unheated inner room is beyond this, and an L-shaped outbuilding addition is located at the right-hand end, likely dating to the late 17th or early 18th century. Minor 19th and 20th-century extensions exist at the rear. A staircase was added into the passage in the 20th century.

The front elevation, which is asymmetrical with four windows on the first floor, features late 19th-century six-pane sash windows. The ground floor has late 20th-century single-light casements without glazing bars. A hall window projection with an extending thatch roof is located to the right of centre. A 20th-century lean-to porch in the angle with the hall bay provides access to the passage. A rectangular oven projection is attached to the hall stack. A gabled outbuilding wing projects from the right-hand end, with a later, lower extension in front of it. A 19th-century outbuilding connects the house to a late 18th or early 19th-century barn that extends to the front.

Inside, the hall has two roll-moulded axial beams. The fireplace is topped with a chamfered wooden lintel. The lower room has a narrow-chamfered axial beam with run-out stops. The roof trusses consist of mostly 19th-century timber principals and lapped collars.

Local climate

Higher Northcott Including Barn Adjoining to South 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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