Higher Barnes is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 January 1974. A C17 House. 1 related planning application.
Higher Barnes
- WRENN ID
- lost-bailey-jet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Honiton and Sidmouth MP: Richard Foord (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 January 1974
- Type
- House
- Address
- Higher Barnes, Ottery St. Mary, EX11 1PY
- OS grid reference
- SY 102 935
- Coordinates
- 50.73466, -3.27314
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Higher Barnes is an early 17th-century, two-storey building located at right angles to the lane and to the east of Crofter's Court. It is constructed of cob and features a hipped thatched roof. The building has a small shallow splay bay window at the first floor on the north end, which is canted on shaped brackets. It includes casement windows, buttresses, and a massive square central brick chimney.
Inside, there is a massive rear door frame inscribed with "MAD RC 1641 - FEBREY." The interior showcases massive hewn beams with wide chamfers, timber-framed crosswalls, wide fireplaces with stop-chamfered beams, and wide-boarded doors with strap hinges on lugs. The building also has heavy rafters.
Higher Barnes, along with Lower Barn, Orchard Green, and Crofter's Court, forms a group.
Local climate
Higher Barnes receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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