Barn Approximately 40 Metres East of Hayne Farmhouse is a Grade II* listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 December 1986. A Post-Medieval Barn.

Barn Approximately 40 Metres East of Hayne Farmhouse

WRENN ID
winding-moulding-dock
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Mid Devon
Constituency
Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 December 1986
Type
Barn
Period
Post-Medieval
OS grid reference
SS 716 033
Coordinates
50.8156, -3.82287
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a mid-17th century threshing barn located approximately 40 metres east of Hayne Farmhouse. It features exposed cob on low rubble footings and has a corrugated iron roof, which was formerly thatch. The barn has gable ends and faces east, with identical designs on both sides, including large opposing central doorways leading to the threshing floors. These doorways are flanked by short projecting midstrey walls, and the roof extends down to create a small hood over the doorways. There are holes above the doorway lintel that suggest the presence of a larger hood in the past, possibly for a date plaque, although its function is unknown. The doors are made of oak and may be original. Each door is flanked by two ventilators, and each gable end wall contains two ventilators, with a third in the gable.

Inside, the barn is open from the ground to the roof and retains its original timber threshing floor. The original four-bay roof is particularly interesting, featuring A-frame trusses with halvings for missing dovetail pegged lap-jointed collars. Near the apex, secondary collars are mortised, tenoned, and pegged to the principal rafters. The principals are reused from presumably 16th-century side-pegged jointed cruck trusses and have been reset upside down. They contain mortises for original threaded purlins but were adapted for trenched purlins upon reuse. This barn appears to have been built around the same time as Hayne Farmhouse, and the timbers likely come from an earlier farmhouse. It is notably complete for its age and contributes to an attractive group with the farmhouse, stable, and another barn nearby.

Local climate

Barn Approximately 40 Metres East of Hayne Farmhouse receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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