Higher Longwood Farmhouse and Adjoining Barn to North-East is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 February 1988. Farmhouse.

Higher Longwood Farmhouse and Adjoining Barn to North-East

WRENN ID
tall-hearth-russet
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
OS grid reference
SS 500 052
Coordinates
50.82696, -4.13087
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Higher Longwood Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the early 18th century, with a 19th-century addition. It features rendered cob and rubble walls, with the left gable end exposed. The roof is thatched at the gable end, with slate covering the rear wing and corrugated iron on the barn. There is a brick stack at the left gable end and a rendered brick stack at the rear wing. The original layout consists of a two-room plan, with a heated room on the left, and a single-room wing added in the 19th century behind it. The barn, which is also from the 18th century, is located at the right-hand end.

The exterior is two storeys high, with a symmetrical front that has two windows, featuring late 19th-century or early 20th-century small-paned two-light casements. There is a central gabled porch from the late 19th or early 20th century, adorned with decorative bargeboards, leading to a panelled and glazed door from the 19th century. The barn has a first-floor loading hatch and a door to the left, along with a wider central doorway. Its original roof structure remains intact, consisting of straight principals with collars that are halved and pegged. The interior of the farmhouse does not have any original features visible.

Local climate

Higher Longwood Farmhouse and Adjoining Barn to North-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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