Yenworthy Farmhouse and Wall Returned from North-West Gable End to East Wing is a Grade II listed building in the Exmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 January 1986. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.

Yenworthy Farmhouse and Wall Returned from North-West Gable End to East Wing

WRENN ID
stubborn-tracery-wax
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
Address
Yenworthy Farmhouse and Wall Returned from North-West Gable End to East Wing, Oare, Somerset, EX35 6NY
OS grid reference
SS 806 487
Coordinates
51.22565, -3.71073
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Yenworthy Farmhouse is a 17th-century farmhouse that was enlarged and mainly rebuilt around 1850 by Mr. Halliday. It features random rubble construction and slate roofs, with overhanging eaves and decorative bargeboards. The building has an external stone stack on the left gable end and another at the centre of the ridge. It is arranged in an L-plan and has two storeys with a façade of two, one, and one bays. All windows are fitted with astragal cast iron glazing bars, with gabled tops on the three and two-light windows on the left. The east wing has a lancet window in the gable end on the right and a three-light window below it, along with a three-light window to the left of the porch and a two-light window to the right. There is a stepped buttress and a flat-roofed rectangular bay with a parapet on the right, as well as a single-storey gabled porch with diagonal stepped buttresses and a rusticated surround to a semi-circular headed opening, which features a diagonal panel inscribed with the name "Yenworthy."

On the left return, the northwest corner of the gable end has an arched opening that abuts a random rubble wall about 1.5 meters high, which returns to the wing at the rear and includes a lean-to shed. The interior has not been seen but is said to contain a reset beam dated 1628, which is thought to indicate the date of the farmhouse's original plan, along with scroll stops on chamfered beams in the front room of the west wing and a moulded step with run-out stops in the rear room. There are otherwise no dateable features. Yenworthy Farmhouse is part of the Glenthorne estate buildings, designed by Mr. Halliday with the assistance of Robinson's Rural Architecture, and is a good example of a mid-19th-century farmhouse designed by a gentleman architect.

Local climate

Yenworthy Farmhouse and Wall Returned from North-West Gable End to East Wing sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,180 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 97% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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