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

Ford Farmhouse

WRENN ID
solemn-kitchen-bistre
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
Ford Farmhouse, Milton Abbot
OS grid reference
SX 403 770
Coordinates
50.57169, -4.25555
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Ford Farmhouse is a farmhouse that underwent a significant remodelling in the late 19th century by the Bedford estate, transforming an earlier house from the 17th century or earlier. The main block is constructed of dressed stone brought to course and features a slate roof that is hipped at the left end and gabled at the right end. There are four chimneys: one stone stack at the right end, a tall stack at the left end, a rendered axial stack on the ridge, and a central rear lateral stack. The roof is adorned with 19th-century crested ridge tiles.

The house is arranged around a narrow central courtyard and has two storeys. The front is asymmetrical with five windows, and the front door is located on the right side, below a rectangular fanlight and a cambered stone arch. To the left of the front door is a canted bay window featuring a sash with glazing bars in each bay. The left and right-hand windows have paired 12-pane sashes set under segmental stone arches and a stone drip ledge. On the first floor, there are four windows that are gabled half-dormers, slate-hung in the gables, with 16-pane sashes. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Ford Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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