Town Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Exmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 April 1987. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.

Town Farmhouse

WRENN ID
idle-cupola-tide
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
Town Farmhouse, Martinhoe, North Devon, EX31 4QT
OS grid reference
SS 667 487
Coordinates
51.22224, -3.90916
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Town Farmhouse is a farmhouse, now used for holiday accommodation, dating from the early 19th century, although it may contain some earlier fabric that is concealed. The building was extended at the left end in the late 19th century. It is constructed of unrendered stone rubble with brick and stone dressings and features a bitumenized slate roof with gable end and ridge brick stacks.

The layout consists of a two-room and central staircase plan, with a gable-ended two-storey service range attached to the rear, along with an added bay of one-room plan that has an integral rear outshut at the left end. A straight joint immediately to the right of the porch suggests that the main range has two phases, with the left-hand side possibly containing earlier fabric, though 19th-century remodelling has obscured any earlier details.

The farmhouse is two storeys high and has a four-window range. The early 20th-century windows include two-light casements with six panes per light on the upper storey and three-light casements on the ground floor, with eight panes per light to the left of the porch and six panes per light to both the left and right of the porch. Most windows have cambered brick lintels, except for the left-hand ground floor window, which features stone voussoirs with a drip above, and the upper storey windows to the right of the porch, which have timber lintels.

The porch, made of stone rubble, has a slated gabled roof and a pointed arched doorway, with a 19th-century six-panelled inner door, two of which are glazed. Some 19th-century joinery remains, including the staircase, plank doors, and fireplace mantelshelves in the principal rooms.

Local climate

Town 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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