Lake Farmhouse and Adjoining Outbuilding to South is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 February 1988. A Early Modern Farmhouse.

Lake Farmhouse and Adjoining Outbuilding to South

WRENN ID
pale-lantern-foxglove
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
Period
Early Modern
OS grid reference
SS 547 053
Coordinates
50.8298, -4.06414
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Lake Farmhouse and the adjoining outbuilding to the south are notable structures, with the older part possibly dating back to the early 16th century if its screen is original. The current farmhouse likely originates from the 18th century. The buildings feature rendered rubble and cob walls, with the farmhouse topped by a gable-ended thatch roof, while the outbuilding has a corrugated iron roof. A rendered rubble stack is located at the right gable end of the farmhouse.

The original house, now serving as the outbuilding, follows a 2 or 3 room-and-through-passage plan, with the lower end on the left. The hall contains a stack at its higher end, and if there was an inner room beyond, it has since been rebuilt as the present farmhouse. The lower end appears to have been divided into two service rooms based on the evidence of the screen, although it is unclear if there was an open hall since the original roof timbers are all from the 20th century. The current farmhouse was likely added in the 18th century at right angles to the original house, featuring a 2-room plan with a central entry hall.

The exterior of the farmhouse is two storeys high with an asymmetrical front that has two windows, featuring 3-light metal frame casements. A late 20th-century plank and glazed door is located to the left. The long outbuilding wing extends from the left-hand end and has a two-window front. The right-hand first-floor window is a 17th-century 4-light chamfered wooden mullion window, with a 20th-century 3-light casement below it. A 19th-century plank door is positioned at the left end, to the right of the centre, and there is a loading hatch above the left-hand end.

Inside the former house, now the outbuilding, there are heavy chamfered and hollow step-stopped cross beams in the right-hand room, along with an open fireplace featuring a chamfered wooden lintel. At the lower side of the passage, remnants of an early 16th-century high-quality plank and muntin screen can be found, although the planks have been removed. This screen includes a moulded headbeam and moulded muntins, as well as two shouldered-head wooden doorframes that are also moulded.

Local climate

Lake Farmhouse and Adjoining Outbuilding to South 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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