Longwood Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 February 1988. Farmhouse.

Longwood Farmhouse

WRENN ID
frozen-turret-rain
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
Longwood Farmhouse, Highampton
OS grid reference
SS 493 048
Coordinates
50.82351, -4.14001
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Longwood Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the late 17th century or early 18th century. It features rendered cob walls and a thatched roof, which is gabled to the right and hipped to the left. The building has two brick stacks, one located at the right gable end and another axial stack. The original layout consisted of two heated rooms, possibly with a small central service room, and there is an outbuilding or store at the left-hand end that has only external access.

The farmhouse is two storeys high with a regular three-window front. The two right-hand first-floor windows and the left-hand ground floor window are 19th-century casements with pegged frames and square section mullions. There is a mid-20th-century metal frame casement on the ground floor to the right, and an early 20th-century casement on the first floor to the left. All windows are three-light, except for the two-light central window on the first floor. The outbuilding at the left-hand end features a 19th-century plank door. Inside, the fireplace in the right-hand room has a chamfered wooden lintel.

Local climate

Longwood 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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