Coombe Farmhouse and Adjoining Outbuildings to West is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 February 1988. Farmhouse.

Coombe Farmhouse and Adjoining Outbuildings to West

WRENN ID
noble-belfry-river
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Devon
Constituency
Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 February 1988
Type
Farmhouse
OS grid reference
SS 497 029
Coordinates
50.80618, -4.134
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Coombe Farmhouse, dating from around the mid-17th century with possible earlier origins, features a 19th-century addition. The farmhouse has plastered cob walls and a gable-ended thatch roof, while the adjoining outbuilding has a corrugated iron roof. A brick axial stack is offset from the ridge, and there is a projecting plastered rubble stack with a brick shaft at the right gable end. Originally designed with a three-room and through passage plan, the lower end to the left was rebuilt as a shippon in the 18th century. The hall stack backs onto the passage, and the inner room was likely remodeled in the 19th century to create a small parlour at the front and a dairy at the rear. A 19th-century outshut was added behind the hall and higher end.

The exterior is two storeys high with an asymmetrical three-window front. The right-hand windows on both floors are late 18th or early 19th-century horizontal sliding sash windows with 18 panes, which is an unusual survival. The central first-floor window is a three-light small-paned casement from the early 20th century, with a single-light 20th-century casement to its left. On the ground floor, there is a late 20th-century top-light-opening single pane casement at the centre and a 20th-century plank door to its left. To the right, there is a small niche with a pointed arched head, likely a bee-bole. The outbuilding at the left-hand end projects slightly and has a door at the centre and a first-floor loading hatch to its right.

Inside, the hall features a fireplace with roll-moulded granite jambs and a chamfered wooden lintel with jewel and hollow stops. The hall also has closely spaced, insubstantial cross beams with similar decoration. The roof trusses are likely from the 19th century, with the feet of insubstantial straight principals visible on the first floor.

Local climate

Coombe Farmhouse and Adjoining Outbuildings to West 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 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% 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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