South Hill Farmhouse Twenty Acres is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 March 1988. House.

South Hill Farmhouse Twenty Acres

WRENN ID
burning-tower-fern
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Devon
Constituency
Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 March 1988
Type
House
Address
South Hill Farmhouse Twenty Acres, South Tawton
OS grid reference
SX 674 988
Coordinates
50.77365, -3.88122
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

South Hill Farmhouse, also known as Twenty Acres, is a small farmhouse dating from the mid or late 17th century, with a late 19th-century extension. The older section is constructed of plastered cob on stone rubble footings, featuring a cob or stone rubble stack and a thatched roof. The 19th-century addition is built of brick, with a brick stack and a slate roof.

The farmhouse has a two-room plan facing south. The left room is the original part, which appears to have been a one-room plan cottage with a projecting gable-end stack on the left (west) side. The right (east) end features a mid or late 19th-century one-room plan extension with a gable-end stack. The building is two storeys high and has a 20th-century outshot at the rear.

The exterior presents a nearly symmetrical three-window front, featuring 20th-century casements with glazing bars, despite the differing wall materials. The central doorway contains a 20th-century plank door, while the former doorway on the left side has been replaced by a ground floor window. The roof is gable-ended.

Inside the 17th-century room, there is a large soffit-chamfered crossbeam, and the rubble fireplace is topped with a soffit-chamfered oak lintel. The roof was not inspected.

Local climate

South Hill Farmhouse Twenty Acres sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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