Bittleford Farmhouse, Including Shippon at Left Hand End is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 August 1955. Farmhouse.

Bittleford Farmhouse, Including Shippon at Left Hand End

WRENN ID
under-fireplace-martin
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dartmoor National Park
Constituency
Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 August 1955
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Bittleford Farmhouse, Including Shippon at Left Hand End, Widecombe in the Moor, Teignbridge
OS grid reference
SX 705 748
Coordinates
50.55945, -3.82877
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Bittleford Farmhouse, which includes a shippon at the left-hand end, is a farmhouse that may have originally been a longhouse. It likely dates from the 17th century or earlier, with a porch added in 1705. The shippon end was rebuilt in the late 19th century or early 20th century. The building is constructed of granite rubble, with the house part covered in roughcast. The house has an asbestos slate roof, while the shippon has a roof of real slates. There are two large chimneystacks on the ridge, also covered in roughcast; the left-hand stack, which probably backs onto a through-passage, features stone weatherings. The layout appears to include four domestic rooms to the right of the through-passage. The farmhouse is two storeys high and has a four-window front. All windows have 20th-century plastic casements, except for a 19th-century wooden casement located in the upper storey of the porch. The ground storey of the porch features a moulded, round-arched granite doorway with "1705 RT" carved in the spandrels. The shippon to the left is L-shaped, with openings that have segmental arches made of well-cut voussoirs. There is a loft door with a gabled roof that rises above the eaves line. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Bittleford Farmhouse, Including Shippon at Left Hand End receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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