Church Gate Farmhouse and Outbuildings Immediately to North is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 February 1988. A Medieval Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Church Gate Farmhouse and Outbuildings Immediately to North
- WRENN ID
- outer-soffit-holly
- 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
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Church Gate Farmhouse and Outbuildings Immediately to North, Northlew, EX20 3NJ
- OS grid reference
- SX 504 991
- Coordinates
- 50.77277, -4.12221
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church Gate Farmhouse and the outbuildings immediately to the north are a farmhouse dating from around the early 16th century, with some modifications possibly from the 17th century. The farmhouse features plastered cob walls and a gable-ended thatch roof, with brick stacks at each end and one axial stack on a rubble base. The layout consists of a three-room-and-through-passage plan, with the lower end to the right. Originally, the hall was heated by a central hearth, but a stack was later inserted into the passage, and the hall was floored at that time. At the rear of the higher end of the hall, there are remains of a newel stair, possibly with a garderobe beside it.
The exterior is two storeys high, with an asymmetrical three-window front. The left side features 19th-century small-paned two and three-light casements, except for a 20th-century window on the ground floor left. To the right of the porch, there are also 20th-century three-light casements. The wall in front of the hall projects slightly, and there is a late 18th or 19th-century open-fronted porch to the right of centre, with a thatch roof extending over it and a 20th-century plank door behind. To the left of the passage doorway at the rear is a late 18th-century square-section wooden mullion window.
Inside, the hall fireplace has a chamfered wooden lintel and granite jambs, and the ceiling beam is chamfered with indistinct stops. The passage features chamfered joists, some of which are hollow chamfered with convex stops. The roof over the hall is a raised cruck structure with mortices for a collar and threaded purlins, and while the apex is not visible, it is likely smoke-blackened. A similar cruck is found in the partition to the inner room, and one blackened timber survives over the passage, likely reused. The lower end has a later roof structure.
The outbuilding immediately to the north of the farmhouse is a single storey with a corrugated iron roof and features a 17th-century chamfered wooden doorframe to the left. This farmhouse and its outbuildings are unspoilt and very picturesque, forming an attractive and traditional group with the nearby church and cross.
Local climate
Church Gate Farmhouse and Outbuildings Immediately to North 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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