Town Living and barn adjoining to south west is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 October 1987. Farmhouse. 9 related planning applications.
Town Living and barn adjoining to south west
- WRENN ID
- third-fireplace-smoke
- 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
- Town Living and barn adjoining to south west, EX20 3RX
- OS grid reference
- SS 602 018
- Coordinates
- 50.79967, -3.9838
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a 17th-century farmhouse with a barn attached to its southwest side, likely incorporating earlier elements and with an addition from the 19th century. The farmhouse has walls of rendered cob, with some concrete block repairs on the rear. The roof is thatched, with slate covering the addition to the left. There are brick stacks, one at the left gable and another axial stack built on a stone base.
The original layout of the rooms isn't fully clear, but the farmhouse now comprises two rooms, with a larger room to the left and an adjoining barn at the right-hand end. A one-room plan addition, likely a kitchen, was added in the 19th century on the left-hand side.
The front of the farmhouse presents an asymmetrical three-window facade with early 20th-century two-light casement windows. The left-hand addition has a 19th-century plank door. To the right of this is an early 19th-century six-panel door, protected by a pedimented doorhood and latticework porch. The barn, attached at the right-hand end, has a wide doorway and a loading hatch above.
Inside, few original features are visible due to later alterations, though they could be concealed. The roof structure includes 18th-century rough principals with lapped and pegged collars.
Local climate
Town Living and barn adjoining to south west sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2012
- Related listed building consents — 9 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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