Holmes Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 February 1988. Farmhouse.
Holmes Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- outer-bracket-willow
- 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
- Address
- Holmes Farmhouse, Hatherleigh
- OS grid reference
- SS 529 050
- Coordinates
- 50.82639, -4.08877
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Holmes Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the early 18th century, with a 19th-century addition. It features plastered cob and rubble walls, while the front gable wall has been rebuilt using concrete blocks. The roof is thatched at the gable end, with a corrugated asbestos roof on the rear outshut. There is a rendered brick stack on the right gable end and a late 20th-century brick stack on the front gable. The building has an L-shaped plan with two main rooms, the larger of which projects at the front, and a 19th-century outshut along the rear.
The exterior is two storeys high with an asymmetrical three-window front. There are two windows on the right-hand face, one on the inner side of the wing on the first floor, and one on each floor of the front face, all of which are late 20th-century two-light casements. A 20th-century plank door is located immediately to the right of the wing. The interior does not display any early features, but the feet of insubstantial straight principals can be seen on the first floor.
Local climate
Holmes Farmhouse 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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