Rock Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 November 1985. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Rock Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- riven-step-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Devon
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 November 1985
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Rock Farmhouse, Milton Abbot, PL16 0HU
- OS grid reference
- SX 434 820
- Coordinates
- 50.61704, -4.21357
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rock Farmhouse is a disused farmhouse, likely built in the early 18th century or earlier, with a 19th-century addition to the northwest. The structure is made of stone rubble, featuring a main range that has a corrugated iron roof, gabled at the left end and half-hipped at the right end, which was formerly thatched. There are stone stacks at both the left gable end of the main range and the left gable end of the 19th-century addition, as well as a stone stack on the ridge. The addition has a lower slate roof, also gabled at the left end, with a stone stack on that end. The farmhouse has a single depth plan with no rear windows, likely designed as a three-room and cross passage layout with an unheated room at the higher end. It is two storeys tall and features an irregular six-window front. There are two entrances on the front of the main range at the left, and most of the windows are early 20th-century casements with glazing bars. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Rock Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% 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 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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 — 3 transactions since 2009
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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