Workshop Approximately 80 Metres South West of East Week Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 March 1988. Workshop.
Workshop Approximately 80 Metres South West of East Week Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- pale-sill-plum
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dartmoor National Park
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 March 1988
- Type
- Workshop
- OS grid reference
- SX 665 919
- Coordinates
- 50.7117, -3.892
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a workshop, formerly a farmhouse, dating to the early 17th century with alterations in the mid 17th century and conversion to a workshop in the late 19th or early 20th century. It is located approximately 80 metres south-west of East Week Farmhouse. Originally a 3-room-and-through-passage plan house built down a hillslope, it faces east-south-east. The former inner room and hall have been combined to create the main workshop space; the original inner room, located at the northern end, was unheated and possibly used as a dairy. The hall features a large axial stack backing onto the passage, and a 17th-century winder stair is located at the lower end of the hall. The service end room has a projecting gable-end stack, and a secondary outshot at the rear of the hall has an external lateral stack. The building is largely the result of a major refurbishment in the mid 17th century, though the original structure may have been an open hall house. The house was originally two storeys, but the former inner room and most of the hall are now open to the roof. The exterior has an irregular 4-window front with 19th-century windows, generally fitted with internal shutters. A 19th-century plank door is located in the passage front doorway. The rear passage doorway retains part of a 17th-century oak doorframe and an old plank door, along with its ovolo-moulded lintel. The roof is gable-ended. A full-height doorway with a segmental head was inserted into the northern gable-end wall in the late 19th or early 20th century to create the workshop entrance. The interior has oak plank-and-muntin screens lining both sides of the passage. The earliest section, likely from the early 17th century, is located to the rear of the hall stack and features filleted ovolo mouldings with scroll stops on its muntins. A mid-17th-century screen in the lower passage has a plain scratch-moulded head and broad bead mouldings on its muntins. The service end fireplace is blocked; the axial beam over the passage has plain soffit chamfers with shaped scroll-like edges to provide more headroom, and its joists are bead-moulded. The hall fireplace is granite ashlar with a hollow-chamfered surround, and the hall crossbeam is ovolo-moulded. Surviving joists in the lower end bay are bead-moulded. The upper hall crosswall and any carpentry detail associated with the inner room have been removed. The roof has a 6-bay structure of A-frame trusses with pegged lap-jointed collars. East Week is a small hamlet with several other listed buildings.
Local climate
Workshop Approximately 80 Metres South West of East Week 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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