Outbuilding Immediately South South West of Coombe Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 April 1988. Outbuilding.
Outbuilding Immediately South South West of Coombe Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- fallen-beam-swallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Devon
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 April 1988
- Type
- Outbuilding
- Address
- Outbuilding Immediately South South West of Coombe Farmhouse, Highampton
- OS grid reference
- SS 497 029
- Coordinates
- 50.80623, -4.13363
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is an outbuilding located immediately south-southwest of Coombe Farmhouse, dating from the early 19th century. It serves as a dairy and wellhouse with a granary above. The structure is made of roughcast rendered cob and features a gable-ended rag slate roof adorned with red clay and block-glazed ridge tiles.
The building has a rectangular plan, with the dairy on the ground floor that includes a well at the left end and a doorway at the front. Access to the granary above is provided by external stone steps located at the left end. There is also a 20th-century lean-to outshut on the right end.
The exterior consists of two storeys. The north front has a doorway on the left with what appears to be a 20th-century plank door, and a small one-light 20th-century metal frame window to the right. The left gable end features an external flight of stone steps leading to a loft doorway, which has a late 19th or 20th-century plank door. At the rear (south), there is a small single-light 20th-century metal frame window. The right (west) end has a 20th-century corrugated iron clad lean-to outshut.
Inside, the ground floor has plastered walls, and the ceiling boards may have replaced a plaster ceiling. The well is located at the left end. The first floor has unplastered walls, with exposed cob that may have originally been plastered. The roof structure is intact and includes one truss with a lapped and pegged collar.
Local climate
Outbuilding Immediately South South West of Coombe 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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