Old Brook Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 May 1986. Farmhouse.

Old Brook Farmhouse

WRENN ID
young-bailey-amber
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dartmoor National Park
Constituency
South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 May 1986
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Old Brook Farmhouse, West Buckfastleigh, South Hams
OS grid reference
SX 711 678
Coordinates
50.49609, -3.81756
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Old Brook Farmhouse is an 18th-century farmhouse located in West Buckfastleigh. The building features a stone rubble first floor at the front, which is slate hung, and has a slate roof with gabled ends. It is two storeys high and consists of three bays. The windows are sash style with glazing bars and are topped with cambered brick arches. The central door is parallel and has a glazed top panel, with a later gabled hood supported by wooden posts. There are granite chimneys at the gable ends that have been heightened in brick. To the right (east) of the main structure, there is a one-storey and attic wing that has one bay, a slate-hung first floor, and a large rendered chimney stack at the gable end, along with casement windows.

Local climate

Old Brook Farmhouse receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% 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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