Unoccupied House Approximately 30 Metres West of Incott Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 October 1987. House.
Unoccupied House Approximately 30 Metres West of Incott Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- spare-sill-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Devon
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 October 1987
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- SX 623 981
- Coordinates
- 50.76658, -3.95369
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This unoccupied house, located approximately 30 metres west of Incott Farmhouse, was originally a farmhouse and is now used partly for agricultural purposes and partly for storage. It dates from the early 16th century, with alterations made in the 17th century. The structure features cob walls that incorporate some stone rubble, and it has a corrugated iron roof that dips to the right end and is gabled to the left.
The original layout likely consisted of a two-room plan with a through passage, but only the passage and the hall to its left remain. The hall contains a fireplace that backs onto the passage; it was probably originally open to the roof, although it is uncertain if the tiled fireplace is original. If it is not, it likely dates from when the ceiling was inserted in the late 16th century. The house may have been abandoned as early as the early 17th century, around the time when Incott Farmhouse was built nearby, although it may have gradually declined until part of it had to be demolished.
The exterior is two-storey high, though the ceiling has been removed internally. The front is asymmetrical and features an original round-headed wooden doorframe with roll moulding at the right-hand end, along with an inserted doorway into the hall at the centre. Inside, there is a large granite-framed hall fireplace with a chamfered lintel that rests on shaped granite corbels. The half beam above the fireplace is chamfered with pyramid stops, and one face-pegged jointed cruck remains in the hall, which may be smoke-blackened, though the darkening is not consistent across the entire truss.
Local climate
Unoccupied House Approximately 30 Metres West of Incott Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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