Barn and Cow House Approximately 8 Metres West of Burrow Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 March 1988. Barn, cow house.

Barn and Cow House Approximately 8 Metres West of Burrow Farmhouse

WRENN ID
calm-step-equinox
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Devon
Constituency
Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 March 1988
Type
Barn, cow house
OS grid reference
ST 067 194
Coordinates
50.96713, -3.32936
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a barn and cow house located approximately 8 meters west of Burrow Farmhouse, dating from the late 18th to early 19th century for the barn, and mid to late 19th century for the cow house. The buildings are constructed from local chert rubble with larger, more carefully shaped quoins, and feature slate roofs.

The layout consists of a barn and an adjoining cow house, which are aligned on slightly different axes but both face west. The barn on the left has central full-height doorways that open onto the threshing floor. The cow house on the right has a hayloft above and extends forward a short distance at its right end.

The exterior of the barn includes short projecting midstrey walls at the full-height doorway, which contains a solid plain timber doorframe and double doors, similar to those at the rear. The cow house features an arcade of six round-headed arches and has two hayloft loading hatches. The projecting room has a doorway on the side and a ground floor window under a low segmental arch at the end, along with a hayloft loading hatch. Both buildings have gable ends, and the main roof steps down from the cow house to the barn.

Inside, the buildings have plain carpentry details. The barn is open to an A-frame truss roof supported by plate yokes, while the cow house roof is held up by scissor-braced trusses.

Local climate

Barn and Cow House Approximately 8 Metres West of Burrow Farmhouse receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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