Fishleigh Down Farmhouse and Adjoining Barn to East is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 February 1988. Farmhouse. 6 related planning applications.
Fishleigh Down Farmhouse and Adjoining Barn to East
- WRENN ID
- low-gable-storm
- 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
- Address
- Fishleigh Down Farmhouse and Adjoining Barn to East, EX20 3LH
- OS grid reference
- SS 549 058
- Coordinates
- 50.8339, -4.06114
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fishleigh Down Farmhouse is a C17 farmhouse, possibly with earlier origins, and featuring an 18th-century addition. The farmhouse has walls constructed of plastered rubble and cob, with some rebuilding in concrete blocks, and exposed rubble to the adjoining barn. The roof is thatched, gabled at the left end and hipped to the right. A rendered rubble chimney stack is at the left gable end, and a rendered brick axial stack is present. The original layout is unclear, but it likely started as a two-room plan, with a heating stack at the left end and a later axial stack added to the right. The barn to the right was probably added in the 18th century.
The front of the farmhouse has an asymmetrical arrangement of three windows, with C20 two-light casement windows. A C20 gabled porch with a plank door is located to the left of centre. The barn has a cart entrance on its left side, and two windows to the right. A catslide roofed leanto projects from the barn’s right side, and a C20 leanto extends from the left-hand side of the farmhouse. The interior was inaccessible during the survey, but may contain interesting features, including the roof structure.
Local climate
Fishleigh Down Farmhouse and Adjoining Barn to East 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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