Week Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 April 1973. Farmhouse.
Week Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- high-flue-crag
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 April 1973
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Week Farmhouse, Great Torrington
- OS grid reference
- SS 512 190
- Coordinates
- 50.95188, -4.11975
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Week Farmhouse, dating from 1735 (also known as Weke Farmhouse), is likely from the 16th or early 17th century, with various alterations and additions over time. The building features stone and cob walls that are plastered, and it stands two storeys high with five windows fitted with modern casements. A massive projecting end chimney is a prominent feature of the structure.
Inside, the first-floor ceiling conceals earlier, higher hewn roof trusses with curved collars, and the floorboards are 20 inches wide. There is a square baluster staircase with column newels. Part of the ground floor includes 18th-century dado fielded panelling. The doors are two-panel doors and wide-boarded doors that have wrought hinges on lugs. A notable feature is the enriched marble mantel from around 1830. The original part of the farmhouse forms a long rectangle with a small wing at right angles to the east. An early 19th-century porch has been added, which is supported by elongated cast iron columns.
Local climate
Week Farmhouse receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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