Barn with Horse Engine House and Shippons to Right Approximately 20 Metres to North of North Lee Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 November 1988. Barn.

Barn with Horse Engine House and Shippons to Right Approximately 20 Metres to North of North Lee Farmhouse

WRENN ID
floating-stair-moss
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Devon
Constituency
North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 November 1988
Type
Barn
OS grid reference
SS 715 294
Coordinates
51.04955, -3.83367
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a barn with a horse-engine house and adjoining shippons, located approximately 20 meters north of North Lee Farmhouse. It dates from the mid to late 19th century and is constructed from uncoursed stone rubble, topped with gable-ended Welsh-slate roofs, and a hipped roof over the engine house. The building has an L-shaped layout facing south, with the barn on the left (west) side featuring a cart entrance at the rear, and a polygonal-ended horse-engine house at the rear of the right-hand end. To the right (east) is a range of shippons that includes a wing returning to the front at the right-hand end, with two storeys.

The exterior includes a two-leaf boarded door in the south wall of the barn, opposite the rear cart entrance, which has a flat stone-arched head. There is also a blocked doorway with a 20th-century concrete blockway and a flat stone-arched head. The rear of the barn has large boarded double doors with a wooden lintel and a shallow porch made up of short sections of wall and a pent roof. The horse-engine house is supported by three rectangular stone piers and features canted corners, with some openings blocked with stone and concrete blockwork. The adjoining L-plan range of shippons has boarded loft doors, ground-floor two-light windows with boarded shutters, and boarded ground-floor doors, all with stone segmental-arched heads.

Inside, the barn has a six-bay roof supported by king-post trusses, and there is a boarded hatch between the barn and the engine house. The engine house contains two trusses, with principal rafters and collars.

Local climate

Barn with Horse Engine House and Shippons to Right Approximately 20 Metres to North of North Lee 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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