Stiles Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Exmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 May 1969. Farmhouse.
Stiles Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- grim-gravel-amber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Exmoor National Park
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 May 1969
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Stiles Farmhouse, Withycombe, Somerset
- OS grid reference
- ST 012 394
- Coordinates
- 51.14573, -3.41346
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Stiles Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the late 17th to early 18th century, possibly incorporating an earlier dwelling at the rear. The building is roughcast over rubble with a slate roof, featuring a large stone stack at the rear and brick stacks at the gable ends. The plan consists of three cells and a cross passage, with a parallel range at the rear linked by a covered way.
The farmhouse has two storeys and five bays. On the first floor, there is a three-light window on the left, and the other windows are cruciform, all of which are 17th-century leaded iron casements, some with quadrant stays and the second from the left featuring a decorative catch. The ground floor windows are set under moulded lintels, with the left side altered to include a three-light mullioned and transomed window, and a 20th-century window to the left of the entrance. On the right side, there is a late 17th-century three-light casement with a quadrant stay. The entrance features a 19th-century plank door and a slate-roofed pentice porch supported by early 19th-century decorative wooden trellis work.
At the rear, there is an outshut addition. The gable end of the parallel range includes pigeon holes, a projection for a bread oven, and a small lancet window to the right. The interior has not been seen but could be of interest.
Local climate
Stiles Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% 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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