Pillmouth Farmhouse and Attached Wall and Gateway is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1987. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Pillmouth Farmhouse and Attached Wall and Gateway
- WRENN ID
- winter-beam-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 February 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Pillmouth Farmhouse and Attached Wall and Gateway, Landcross
- OS grid reference
- SS 462 244
- Coordinates
- 50.9986, -4.19182
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pillmouth Farmhouse, dating from the early 17th century, features a late 19th-century extension and alterations. The building is roughcast over coursed slatestone rubble, topped with a gabled slate roof. It has a late 19th-century brick ridge stack, an external end stack of rendered stone on the left wing, and a lateral stack of rendered stone at the rear right. The farmhouse is arranged in an L-plan with a front left wing and has two storeys with a three-window range at the front.
A central two-storey porch from the 17th century is notable, featuring a sundial from the 18th century above an early 17th-century doorway. This doorway has a moulded stone architrave with leaf spandrels and a 17th-century studded door with a Norfolk latch, set in a moulded wood architrave with urn stops. The windows are late 19th-century two and three-light transomed casements with glazing bars in the upper lights, topped with flat rendered arches.
The right end of the front has a wing attached at right angles, which also has a two-storey, three-window range front, featuring a 20th-century door and 20th-century and late 19th-century two-light casements on the first floor. The left side wall includes late 19th-century and 20th-century porches and casements, with a late 19th-century extension to the rear left. The right gable end has a label mould over an early 17th-century four-light window with cavetto-moulded mullions and an ovolo-moulded frame.
Inside, early 17th-century doorways with cyma-moulded architraves flank the passage from the porch to the late 19th-century staircase. The room to the ground floor right has a flat stone arch over an early 17th-century open fireplace and a neo-classical style plaster frieze. The attics and the left wing have not been inspected.
Additionally, there is an L-shaped wall of stone and cob attached to the rear left corner, along with a 19th-century gateway that features a Welsh slate roof, reset early 17th-century mouldings on the jambs, and a 17th-century panelled and studded door set in an ovolo-moulded wood architrave.
Local climate
Pillmouth Farmhouse and Attached Wall and Gateway receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% 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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- No sale records on file
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