Luckesses Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Exmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 January 1986. A Medieval Farmhouse. 5 related planning applications.

Luckesses Farmhouse

WRENN ID
white-keystone-stoat
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Exmoor National Park
Constituency
Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 January 1986
Type
Farmhouse
Period
Medieval
Address
Luckesses Farmhouse, Exford, Somerset, TA24 7QF
OS grid reference
SS 844 389
Coordinates
51.13837, -3.65345
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Luckesses Farmhouse is a farmhouse and stables dating from the 16th century, with alterations dated 1639 and extensions made in the late 19th century. The building features roughcast over rubble and slate roofs, with a higher independently hipped roof on the left and a large central roughcast stack at the junction of the different roof levels. The plan is thought to be a 3-cell layout that has been enlarged, partly rebuilt, and may have originally been a longhouse.

The farmhouse is two storeys high with a long 5-bay facade, primarily featuring 20th-century casement windows. There is a window on the left below the eaves, and the wall breaks forward for one bay, which includes a 3-light leaded iron casement with wooden boarding below the eaves. The end bay on the right has a 20th-century casement, while the ground floor on the right is unlit and features very shallow buttresses or a batter to the wall. There are two 3-light windows on the left, and a studded plank door accessed by two steps. In the recessed end bay, there is a half-glazed door with many panes, reached by three steps. It is said that there is a datestone reading '1639 June 14' on the rear wall. Adjacent to the left at right angles is a 19th-century 3-bay stable block with a loft above. The interior has not been seen.

Local climate

Luckesses Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,070 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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