Leat Farm is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 November 1985. House. 2 related planning applications.
Leat Farm
- WRENN ID
- guardian-jade-cedar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Devon
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 November 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Leat Farm, Leat Road, Lifton, PL16 0DF
- OS grid reference
- SX 390 848
- Coordinates
- 50.64135, -4.27699
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Leat Farm is a house with probable origins in the 16th century, which was rebuilt or extended in the 19th century. It is constructed of whitewashed and rendered stone rubble, topped with an asbestos slate roof that is hipped at the left end and gabled at the right. The building features two rear lateral projecting stone stacks; one is very massive with set-offs, while the other is a rendered stack from the 19th century located at the right gable end in front of the ridge. There is some external evidence suggesting a former through passage plan at the left-hand end of the house. The inner room appears to have been completely rebuilt or added, likely in the late 19th century when the house was refenestrated.
The house is two storeys tall with an asymmetrical three-window front, lacking front windows at the right-hand end. There are two entrances on the front: one on the left, which likely marks the former through passage, and a second that leads into the rebuilt or added section of the house on the right. The front windows are late 19th-century four-pane sashes, while the rear has no windows except for one 19th-century first-floor two-light casement with six panes per light. There is evidence of a blocked doorway at the rear, opposite the door on the front at the left. The interior has not been inspected but is said to have no visible early features, although they may be concealed.
Local climate
Leat Farm sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% 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 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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