Red Door Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Exmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 January 1986. Farmhouse.
Red Door Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- third-steel-wind
- 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
- Red Door Farmhouse, Exton, Somerset
- OS grid reference
- SS 925 335
- Coordinates
- 51.09117, -3.535
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Red Door Farmhouse is a farmhouse that dates back to the 16th century, with enlargements made in the 18th century and restoration in the late 20th century. The building features roughcast over rubble and possibly cob, topped with an asbestos slate hipped roof. There is a large lateral stack to the left of the entrance and a brick stack set to the right. The layout likely consists of two cells and a cross passage, with an additional bay added to the left into the hillside, along with a storeroom addition and a wing projecting at the rear.
The farmhouse is two storeys high and has a facade with one bay on the left that is unlit, while the right side has two bays. All windows are 20th-century casements. On the first floor, there is one 2-light casement to the left of the stack and two to the right. On the ground floor, there are two 2-light casements, one to the left for the storeroom and one to the left of the stack. A notable feature is the good semi-circular headed door frame leading to a studded door. The end bay on the right is obscured by unlit farm buildings that have an asbestos slate roof and flat bedded slate walls.
Inside, to the left of the cross passage, there is a well-crafted chamfered 4-panel compartment ceiling, which includes half bays for the open fireplace and window. The staircase is positioned against the rear wall and appears to be in its original location, featuring a moulded door frame to the partition. The roof trusses have been renewed.
Local climate
Red Door Farmhouse 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 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% 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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