Town Farm and Heathcot is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 October 1987. Farmhouse, cottage. 4 related planning applications.
Town Farm and Heathcot
- WRENN ID
- idle-cellar-briar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dartmoor National Park
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 October 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse, cottage
- Address
- Town Farm and Heathcot, Lydford, West Devon, EX20 4AW
- OS grid reference
- SX 511 849
- Coordinates
- 50.645, -4.10702
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a late 18th-century farm, extended in the 19th century, comprising a farmhouse (Town Farm) and an adjoining cottage (Heathcot), with a barn and older outbuilding. The building is constructed of granite rubble with a gabled slate roof, and has two axial stacks, one central to Town Farm and another between Heathcot and its barn. Town Farm has a two-room plan with a central axial stack that creates back-to-back fireplaces and a lobby entrance. Heathcot, added in the 19th century, has a smaller two-room plan with the larger heated room to the right. A barn was presumably added later in the 19th century.
The symmetrical front of Town Farm features a late 19th-century arrangement of three windows with four-pane sashes. A hipped-roof stone porch with an open front is centrally positioned and may be original. A 19th-century one-panelled door sits behind the porch. Attached at the left-hand end is a lower outbuilding, seemingly dating back to the 14th century, which faces the rear. Heathcot has a single-window front with 20th-century top-opening casements and a hipped-roof porch to the left. The barn, attached to the right, has a central first-floor loading hatch. The interior has not been inspected, but may contain original joinery.
Local climate
Town Farm and Heathcot 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 7 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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