Farm Building at Accott is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1986. Farm building.
Farm Building at Accott
- WRENN ID
- long-wattle-furze
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1986
- Type
- Farm building
- Address
- Farm Building at Accott, Accott Lane, Swimbridge
- OS grid reference
- SS 640 325
- Coordinates
- 51.07574, -3.94202
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The farm building at Accott is a historic structure, possibly dating back to the 15th century, with an original use that is unknown but is reputed to have served as a chapel. It is constructed from stone rubble and features a corrugated asbestos roof with gable ends. The building has a rectangular plan and was originally lofted but now has a raised concrete floor inserted at waist-height, making it a single storey.
On the front left side, there is an opening with a timber lintel and a stone rubble buttress to the left. To the right, there is a partially demolished 19th-century lean-to. At the rear, there is a late medieval doorway with a timber surround and a slightly shouldered head, which seems to have been inserted into a former larger opening. The right gable end has a large blocked loft opening with a slightly cambered stone arch.
The roof structure is largely intact and features five raised cruck trusses, four of which have short jointed feet, while the central truss has short curved feet that are integral with the blades. The roof also includes two tiers of threaded purlins and a threaded ridge purlin. The straight collars are tenoned into soffit mortices on the blades, with three pairs having short strengthening pieces at the ridge. Notably, Truss I has a jointed foot missing from the front, and Truss II has a foot missing from the rear. This building was formerly attached to the west gable end of Accott Manor, which was demolished around the 1960s.
Local climate
Farm Building at Accott sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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