Warren Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 February 1988. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Warren Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- burning-rampart-moon
- 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
- Warren Farmhouse, Highampton, EX21 5LL
- OS grid reference
- SS 495 034
- Coordinates
- 50.81063, -4.13692
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Warren Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 17th century, with 19th-century additions. It features rendered cob and rubble walls, a gable-ended roof made of corrugated asbestos, and slate on the right-hand end and rear wing. The building has four axial rendered stacks. The layout includes a four-room-and-through-passage plan, with a small service room at the lower end to the left, beyond which is a barn or shippon that may be integral to the farmhouse. The right-hand end room, likely a kitchen, may be a later 17th-century or early 18th-century extension. The axial hall stack backs onto the passage, and there is a mid to late 19th-century L-shaped addition extending to the rear, which may have originally served as a separate cottage.
The exterior is two storeys high with a long, asymmetrical five-window front, where the right-hand end is a 19th-century addition. The central section has 20th-century three-light casements, with a two-light small-paned casement to the right of centre on the first floor and two late 20th-century two-light casements beyond. A 20th-century plank door is located towards the left-hand end of the house, accompanied by a 19th-century two-light dairy window to its left and a shallow rectangular projection to its right. To the right of centre is a 20th-century lean-to with two plank doors. The 19th-century addition features a gabled porch. The barn at the left-hand end has a doorway to the right with a loading hatch above and two slits on the ground floor to its left.
Inside, the central room has a chamfered axial beam. The hall fireplace includes chamfered granite jambs and a roughly chamfered wooden lintel, with a cloam oven on the side. The roof comprises 19th-century insubstantial straight principal rafters.
Local climate
Warren 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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