Rudge Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 July 1986. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Rudge Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- sombre-brick-tarn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dartmoor National Park
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 July 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Rudge Farmhouse, Lustleigh, Teignbridge, TQ13 9SL
- OS grid reference
- SX 783 807
- Coordinates
- 50.61398, -3.72093
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rudge Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the early to mid-19th century. It features solid rendered walls, likely made of stone, and has a slated roof with a chimneystack on the left-hand gable. The building has a double-depth plan with a central passage and staircase, and it stands two storeys high, with single-storey lean-tos at each end, although the left-hand lean-to has been rebuilt.
The front of the house is symmetrical with three windows, flanked by pilasters, and has an eaves-cornice supported by widely spaced paired brackets. The lean-tos are concealed by screen walls, each featuring a blind round-arched window. The main block has six-paned sash windows with margin-panes. The central entrance door is six-panelled, with the four upper panels now glazed.
In front of the entrance is a porch with solid side walls, each containing a round-arched window. The open front of the porch is supported by slender cast-iron columns on either side and has a flat roof, which has been rebuilt, featuring shaped brackets. Each gable has a window with a pointed arch and small-paned glazing. The interior has not been inspected.
In 1838, the house was owned and occupied by George Wills, junior. Behind the house, included in the property but not separately listed, is a ruined outbuilding, sometimes thought to be an earlier farmhouse. This outbuilding has an ovolo-moulded wood fireplace-lintel with joist-slots on top, which may have been the door-head from a 16th or 17th-century stud-and-panel screen.
Local climate
Rudge Farmhouse receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% 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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