Whitefield Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Exmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1986. Farmhouse.
Whitefield Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- scattered-barrel-furze
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Exmoor National Park
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Whitefield Farmhouse, West Lane, Challacombe, North Devon
- OS grid reference
- SS 677 418
- Coordinates
- 51.16047, -3.89214
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Whitefield Farmhouse is a 17th-century farmhouse that was remodeled and extended in the early 19th century. It features whitewashed rendered rubble and slate roofs with gable ends. The building has a lateral brick stack at the rear of the lower end and a lateral hall stack enclosed in a rear kitchen extension. The layout consists of a three-cell through-passage plan with a dairy at the upper end and the lower end rebuilt and extended as a parlour. A right-angled kitchen extension of two storeys has been added to the rear, creating an overall T-shaped plan.
The farmhouse is two storeys high and has a four-window range, with two sashes at the lower end—one with horns and the other hornless. There is a plank door leading to the dairy and a 19th-century gabled porch with a decorative fanlight. The inner door is half-panelled with an overlight featuring marginal glazing bars. To the left, there is a three-light hall window with two panes per light, and to the right, a hornless sash window with eight over twelve panes. A similarly paned ground floor sash is located at the lower gable end. At the rear, there is a slated outshut in the angle of the T-shape.
Inside, the hall features two scroll-stopped beams, and much of the 19th-century joinery remains intact. There are blocked internal doorways leading to the dairy and six early 19th-century roof trusses.
Local climate
Whitefield Farmhouse 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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