Barn Approximately 25 Metres South East of Higher Upcott Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 May 1987. Barn.

Barn Approximately 25 Metres South East of Higher Upcott Farmhouse

WRENN ID
wild-span-gilt
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Devon
Constituency
Exmouth and Exeter East MP: David Reed (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 May 1987
Type
Barn
OS grid reference
SY 043 942
Coordinates
50.74028, -3.3572
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a threshing barn located approximately 25 metres south-east of Higher Upcott Farmhouse. It likely dates from the early 17th century and was refurbished in the 18th century. The barn is constructed of plastered cob on local purple-coloured sandstone rubble foundations, featuring large dressed quoins, and has a corrugated iron roof that was originally thatch. It is a small barn oriented on a north-west to south-east axis and built across a slope. Each side has central full-height doorways leading to the threshing floor. Due to the slope, the floor on the south-west side is raised, allowing for loading directly from or to carts. There are large double doors, probably from the 19th century, flanked by short projecting midstray walls on either side. The roof is half-hipped at the north-west end and hipped at the south-east end. Inside, the barn is open to the roof, which consists of three bays supported by 18th-century collared tie beam trusses, along with the remains of one original side-pegged jointed cruck truss.

Local climate

Barn Approximately 25 Metres South East of Higher Upcott Farmhouse receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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