Higher Mannacott, Including Attached Shippon and Stables at South End is a Grade II listed building in the Exmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 April 1987. Farmhouse.

Higher Mannacott, Including Attached Shippon and Stables at South End

WRENN ID
quiet-flint-finch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Exmoor National Park
Constituency
North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 April 1987
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Higher Mannacott, Including Attached Shippon and Stables at South End, Mannacott Lane, Martinhoe, North Devon
OS grid reference
SS 662 479
Coordinates
51.21513, -3.91695
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Higher Mannacott is a tenement farmhouse, likely built in the early 19th century, which includes an attached shippon and stables at the south end. The building is constructed of painted stone rubble and features a slate roof that extends continuously over the entire range, with gable ends. There is a large stone rubble stack with offsets and a drip, heightened in brick, located at the left end, and a ridge brick stack at the right end of the dwelling.

The house, which is at the lower end, has a small two-room layout with a central staircase. The kitchen is situated to the left of the staircase, while the parlour is to the right. The long stable and shippon range extends to the right and is unusually attached to the upper end of the dwelling. The house is two storeys high and has a two-window range. The late 19th or early 20th century windows are four-paned sashes, with the upper storey windows breaking through the eaves. The ground floor windows are topped with cambered arched brick lintels.

There is a deep projecting stone rubble porch with a pantiled lean-to roof and a 19th-century plank inner door. The shippon and stable range was formerly lofted, but only the ceiling beams remain. Each outbuilding has a plank stable door. Higher Mannacott is located by the roadside and represents a late example of a small tenement farmhouse with its integral farm buildings constructed under one roof.

Local climate

Higher Mannacott, Including Attached Shippon and Stables at South End sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,170 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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