Unoccupied House Approximately 40 Metres to South East of Bridgetown Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 February 1988. Unoccupied house, former farmhouse.

Unoccupied House Approximately 40 Metres to South East of Bridgetown Farmhouse

WRENN ID
quartered-solder-ridge
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Devon
Constituency
Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 February 1988
Type
Unoccupied house, former farmhouse
OS grid reference
SS 555 071
Coordinates
50.84602, -4.05274
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This unoccupied former farmhouse, located approximately 40 metres southeast of Bridgetown Farmhouse, dates back to the early 16th century with alterations from the 17th century. The building features partly rendered rubble and cob walls, topped with a gable-ended corrugated iron roof. It has a projecting front lateral stack, likely made of rubble with a brick shaft, though it is currently overgrown with ivy.

The layout consists of a three-room and through passage plan, with the lower end situated to the right. The hall was originally open to the roof and included a central hearth, but later roof structures at both ends have obscured its original form. The hall was ceiled in the early 17th century, coinciding with the addition of the front lateral stack. The lower room is heated by a gable end stack, and a 19th-century brick wall has been inserted between the hall and the passage.

Externally, the building is two storeys high with an asymmetrical front, where the windows are overgrown. There are three doorways; the left and right end doorways are later additions, while the original passage door is centrally located and retains its round-headed door frame with small roll-moulding. To the left of this door is a projecting chimney stack, with a semi-circular oven projection to the right.

Inside, the lower room features a fireplace with a cambered, chamfered, and step-stopped wooden lintel. The hall contains chamfered cross beams with convex stops, and its fireplace has a chamfered wooden lintel supported by curved wooden corbels with vertical grooves. There is a built-in settle against the higher end wall with a curved bench end, and the round-headed wooden doorframe to the inner room is lightly chamfered on the hall side. The roof retains its original smoke-blackened truss, purlins, and ridge over the hall, with the truss made of heavy scantling and a front blade that has a curved foot. The purlins and ridge are threaded, and the morticed collar has been removed. Over the lower end, there is likely a 17th-century truss with straight principals, a morticed apex, trenched purlins, and no collar.

Local climate

Unoccupied House Approximately 40 Metres to South East of Bridgetown 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 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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