Brinsabach Farmhouse and Outbuilding Adjoining at West is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 November 1985. Farmhouse.

Brinsabach Farmhouse and Outbuilding Adjoining at West

WRENN ID
silent-pillar-wax
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dartmoor National Park
Constituency
Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
7 November 1985
Type
Farmhouse
OS grid reference
SX 482 798
Coordinates
50.59821, -4.14591
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Brinsabach Farmhouse is a farmhouse with origins in the 16th century, featuring additions from the 19th century and alterations from the 20th century. It is constructed of stone rubble and has an asbestos slate roof that is gabled at both ends, with a tall stone stack at the left gable end. The original layout was likely a three-room plan with a through passage, but the lower end is now a single storey under a corrugated iron roof and is partly used as an outbuilding. There are 19th-century additions at the rear. The main block is two storeys high and has an asymmetrical three-window front with irregular fenestration and 20th-century windows. To the left of the main block, there is a porch with a sloping slated roof supported by solid stone walls, which includes a stone seat. A 16th-century chamfered four-centred doorway leads to the former passage and features a triangular section of unusual relief carving above the opening, consisting of decorative patee fitched crosses. Inside, there is a fireplace at the left gable end stack that is partly blocked, and the roof timbers are said to have been replaced. The Batten family has lived at Brinsabach since the early 16th century.

Local climate

Brinsabach Farmhouse and Outbuilding Adjoining at West sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 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 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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