Barn and Adjoining Outbuildings Approximately 40 Metres to South West of Brown's Marsh Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 November 1988. Barn, outbuildings. 1 related planning application.
Barn and Adjoining Outbuildings Approximately 40 Metres to South West of Brown's Marsh Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- twisted-lime-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 November 1988
- Type
- Barn, outbuildings
- Address
- Barn and Adjoining Outbuildings Approximately 40 Metres to South West of Brown's Marsh Farmhouse, EX36 3HQ
- OS grid reference
- SS 725 274
- Coordinates
- 51.03268, -3.81947
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This listing describes a barn and adjoining outbuildings located approximately 40 meters southwest of Brown's Marsh Farmhouse. The structures likely date from the mid to late 18th century, with early 19th-century additions and late 19th or early 20th-century alterations. They are constructed from coursed stone rubble, with cob at the rear and the right-hand end, and feature one late 19th-century brick lean-to addition. The roof is made of Welsh slate, hipped to the right and half-hipped to the left, with slate and corrugated iron covering the lean-to additions.
The layout includes the barn on the left, facing south, and a shippon with a loft above on the right. There are lean-to pigstys to the right of the barn door and an early 20th-century lean-to addition to the left, which may have served as a small petrol engine house replacing a former horse-engine. The exterior features large boarded double doors for the barn, with the left-hand door having two leaves and a wooden lintel. The late 19th-century lean-to addition on the left has a boarded door in its right-hand return. The former pigstys, likely from the 19th century, have two low openings at the front, though the pens have been demolished. There is a boarded door at the rear of the barn and a loft door in the left-hand end wall.
Inside, the barn has a five-bay roof supported by 18th-century trusses, which include principal rafters and collars, with late 19th or early 20th-century rafters. A metal shaft projects through the wall on a wooden saddle, likely a remnant of a drive shaft from an external horse engine. The shippon features a late 19th or early 20th-century three-bay roof. A stone wall separates the shippon from the barn, which is probably the farmer's end wall of the barn. Additionally, a post in front of the left-hand end of the barn may be the remains of a former horse-engine, although it did not necessarily have permanent housing.
Local climate
Barn and Adjoining Outbuildings Approximately 40 Metres to South West of Brown's Marsh Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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