Tivington Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Exmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 May 1969. A C17 Farmhouse.

Tivington Farmhouse

WRENN ID
first-landing-sienna
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Exmoor National Park
Constituency
Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 May 1969
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Tivington Farmhouse, Selworthy, Somerset
OS grid reference
SS 931 455
Coordinates
51.19942, -3.53135
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Tivington Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 17th century, which was enlarged and altered in the mid-19th century. The south gable end and east front were rebuilt in the mid-20th century. The building is rendered over rubble and features thatched roofs along with double Roman tiles. It has an external stack on the west gable end, a lateral stack on the south-west, and another lateral stack on the north front next to the porch.

The farmhouse is arranged in an L-shape, with the entrance now located on the north front. The north front has two storeys and a two-window layout to the left of the porch, featuring 19th-century three-light ogee-headed casements. The first-floor window on the left rises through the eaves, while the wall slightly breaks forward to the right, where there is a window set below the eaves and a lateral stack. The ground floor has a central gabled porch with an ogee-headed doorway and a plank door. To the right of the stack is a full-height gabled porch with applied half-timbering in the gable end and a chamfered semicircular-headed doorway, likely reset with a plank door. There is a mid-19th-century rubble farm building to the right, which is not of special interest.

The left return fronting the road features a central hipped thatched roof porch with a four-light chamfered mullioned window, a blocked opening below, and a two-light window to the right. The gable end is beyond this, with a lateral stack on the left ground floor masked by outshots. The interior has not been seen, but the north range is said to lack datable features, with high ceilings in the rear wing that have deep chamfers and shallow step and run-out stops. It is unclear which part of the house is the earliest section.

Local climate

Tivington Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,130 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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