North Town is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 October 1987. A C17 Farmhouse.
North Town
- WRENN ID
- secret-span-khaki
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Devon
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 October 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- North Town, Sampford Courtenay
- OS grid reference
- SS 633 008
- Coordinates
- 50.79091, -3.94036
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
North Town is a farmhouse that dates from the 17th century or earlier. It features plastered cob and rubble walls, with a thatched roof that is hipped to the left and gabled to the right. A central axial brick stack is present. The layout is difficult to determine without an internal inspection, but it appears to have a two-room plan with a through passage, and an integral barn at the lower side of the passage on the right-hand end. The hall stack may back onto the passage.
The exterior is two storeys high and has an asymmetrical front with two windows on the ground floor and one window on the first floor, all positioned towards the left-hand end. The windows are early 20th-century three-light casements. There is a 19th-century plank door at the centre and a stable-type door to the right of centre, likely leading into the barn. At the rear, there is a shallow rectangular projection at the centre with a wide doorway leading into the barn to its right. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
North Town 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 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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