Rea Barn House is a Grade II listed building in the Torbay local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1975. House.
Rea Barn House
- WRENN ID
- second-barrel-thyme
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torbay
- Constituency
- South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1975
- Type
- House
- Address
- Rea Barn House, 2, Rea Barn Road, Brixham
- OS grid reference
- SX 924 555
- Coordinates
- 50.3901, -3.51439
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rea Barn House is a house that likely dates back to the 17th century, although it features a 20th-century date plaque inscribed A.D. 1636. The building has solid roughcast walls and an asbestos slated roof, with a lower section on the right that is roofed with corrugated iron. There are rendered chimneys with tapered caps on each gable of the main house.
The structure is a small oblong building, probably with a two- or three-room ground plan. The lower range on the right is set back slightly and is likely a former outbuilding. The house has two storeys and a garret. The main house features three windows on the ground floor, with a doorway between the two left-hand windows. The upper storey has one window at each end. The right-hand range has one upper-storey window, while the ground storey is covered by an added lean-to. The ground storey windows on the right are plain and have late 20th-century wood frames, while the left window is slightly older, featuring a six-panel wood frame. The upper-storey windows have three-light wood casements, possibly from the 19th century, with two panes per light. There is also a long, late 20th-century dormer with a flat top.
The right range has a small three-light window in the upper storey. The gable wall to the left, facing Bolton Street, has a projecting chimney breast. To the right of this chimney in the ground storey is a mid to late 20th-century wood-framed window with a small horizontally sliding light at the bottom. The upper storey has a small window with a six-paned fixed wood sash.
The interior has not been inspected, but a description from 1975 notes that it had some chamfered ceiling beams on the ground floor and a fireplace bressumer.
Local climate
Rea Barn House receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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