Hele Farmhouse and Attached Railings is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1987. Farmhouse.

Hele Farmhouse and Attached Railings

WRENN ID
tattered-keystone-nettle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Devon
Constituency
Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 January 1987
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Hele Farmhouse and Attached Railings, Gulworthy
OS grid reference
SX 426 741
Coordinates
50.54562, -4.22232
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Hele Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from around the mid-19th century. It is constructed of rubble with a slate-hung front and features a hipped slate roof with stacks on the sides. There are additions to the left rear, which also have a hipped slate roof, with a rubble ground floor and a slate-hung first floor. The building has a double depth plan with a central entry leading to a passage, flanked by two principal front rooms and rear service rooms.

The farmhouse is two storeys high and symmetrical, with three windows on the front. The first floor has three 2-light casements, each with eight panes, while the ground floor features similar 3-light casements on either side of a central gabled slate-hung porch, which has a shouldered head to the opening and an inner panelled and glazed door. The addition to the left has a similar 2-light casement on the first floor.

On the left side, there is a 2-light casement on the ground floor to the left and a 20th-century window to the right, both with segmental heads. The central door has an overlight, and the first floor has a 2-light casement to the right, with the left side blocked, both also with segmental heads. The first floor level is rendered. The right side of the farmhouse has a small single-storey addition with a hipped roof and a stack on the right side, which serves as an additional service room.

The interior has not been inspected. Enclosing the front garden area on the left side are railings with baluster rails at intervals, scrolled struts behind, urn finials, plain rails, and a central gate with a semi-circular brace. The farmhouse was formerly part of the Bedford Estate.

Local climate

Hele Farmhouse and Attached Railings sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 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 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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