Barn and Cow House 50 Metres East of Westcott Barton is a Grade II* listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 February 1965. A Post-Medieval Barn.
Barn and Cow House 50 Metres East of Westcott Barton
- WRENN ID
- rooted-alcove-kestrel
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 February 1965
- Type
- Barn
- Period
- Post-Medieval
- OS grid reference
- SS 532 385
- Coordinates
- 51.12704, -4.09919
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The barn and cow-house, located 50 metres east of Westcott Barton, dates from the early 17th century and is constructed from coursed dressed stone with a pantiled roof. It likely started as a barn and stables. The building features two buttresses with weathering and a moulded plinth at the lower end. A string course runs around part of the front, with putlog holes beneath it. There are two ventilators in the gable. Each side of the cart entrance has a niche, with a timber lintel and a tiled porch supported by timber brackets. At the right-hand end, there is a door and a square opening, both with timber lintels. Inside, stop-chamfered beams support a hay loft. The roof is continuous over both sections and consists of seven bays with six trusses. The principals have curved feet that rest on short wooden plates on wallplate collars, with two tiers of threaded-through purlins, and the original rafters are intact.
Local climate
Barn and Cow House 50 Metres East of Westcott Barton sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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