Yeat Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 November 1985. Farmhouse.

Yeat Farmhouse

WRENN ID
errant-cupola-juniper
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
Yeat Farmhouse, Lifton
OS grid reference
SX 379 859
Coordinates
50.65022, -4.29296
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Yeat Farmhouse is a 17th-century farmhouse with later alterations, constructed from rendered stone and cob. The roof is covered with asbestos slate, featuring gables at the right end and a hipped design at the left end, and it was originally thatched. The building has three stacks on the ridge with brick shafts, including a stone stack at the left gable end, a rendered stack at the left end of the higher section, and a stone stack at the center of the higher section.

The farmhouse consists of two sections, with cob at the lower end and stone at the higher end. It likely began as a three-room plan with a through or cross passage, and there is a circa 19th-century addition at the rear. Internal alterations have obscured the original layout, and the higher end features a gabled front wing. The lower end has a lower roofline.

The building is two storeys high with a front that has one window on the lower end and three on the higher end. The current entrance is through a lean-to attached to the front on the right. There are two entrances into the lower end: one on the front at the left and another on the front at the right, which may be the passage doorway. The ground floor window in the front projection is a pair of 6-pane sashes, while the ground floor window on the right is a 3-light granite 17th-century mullioned window with casements that have glazing bars. On the first floor of the lower end, there is a 19th-century 16-pane sash window. The higher end features two 8-pane sashes from the 19th or 20th century and one 20th-century casement window.

Inside, the fireplaces are partly blocked, and the ceiling of the middle room is boarded over, possibly hiding earlier features. The roof space has not been inspected.

Local climate

Yeat Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% 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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