Pig House Approximately 2 Metres North of Powlesland Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 March 1988. Pig house, bakehouse, cottage.
Pig House Approximately 2 Metres North of Powlesland Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- endless-jamb-cedar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Devon
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 March 1988
- Type
- Pig house, bakehouse, cottage
- OS grid reference
- SX 688 960
- Coordinates
- 50.74901, -3.86019
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a pig house located approximately 2 metres north of Powlesland Farmhouse. It dates from the late 17th century but has earlier origins. The oldest part is constructed of granite stone-rubble, while the rest is made of cob on stone rubble footings. The building has a disused cob stack and a corrugated iron roof, which was formerly thatched.
It has a two-room plan and faces southeast, with the right room being the earlier section. In the late 17th century, a second room was added with a gable-end stack, the wall over the earlier part was raised, and the entire building was re-roofed. Originally a bakehouse or cottage, it has since been converted for agricultural use, with the first floor now serving as a hayloft.
The building is two storeys high. The exterior clearly shows the difference between the cob and stone rubble sections. Each side of the central straight join features a doorway flanked by a 20th-century window. The left doorway has a 15th-century oak two-centred arch with a chamfered surround, which may have been reset from the train farmhouse. There is a hayloft loading hatch at the right end, and the roof is gable-ended.
Inside, the carpentry details are plain. The large fireplace has a plain oak lintel, and the crossbeams feature unstopped soffit chamfers. The roof is supported by originally uncollared straight principal trusses.
Local climate
Pig House Approximately 2 Metres North of Powlesland Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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