The Lawn Including Barn at Rear (North East) is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 October 1987. Pair of houses. 2 related planning applications.
The Lawn Including Barn at Rear (North East)
- WRENN ID
- shifting-ledge-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 October 1987
- Type
- Pair of houses
- Address
- The Lawn Including Barn at Rear (North East), Fore Street, Witheridge, EX16 8AH
- OS grid reference
- SS 805 144
- Coordinates
- 50.91723, -3.70123
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Lawn, including the barn at the rear, is a pair of houses dating to the late 16th century, with a 17th-century wing added at right angles to the rear, and further rebuilding in the 18th century. The walls are roughcast and colourwashed, likely over a rubble core, with an asbestos slated roof that is hipped on the left and gabled on the right. There are two brick stacks, one off-ridge to the left and one on the ridge to the extreme right. The original layout may have been of three units with a through-passage, and the plan evolved to include two large rooms flanked by an 18th-century entrance hall. Later wings were added in the 17th century, forming a U-shaped plan, with a barn at right angles across the rear, creating a quadrangle. The front has two storeys and five windows, with 4-pane double-hung sashes in most openings. A 2-light casement window is present on the first floor to the extreme right, and a 20th-century canted bay window sits on the ground floor. There are two door openings, both with 20th-century doors; the left door is recessed and has a wooden ledge hood, while the right door also has a ledge hood and a 20th-century half-glazed door with a sidelight. Inside, there is 18th-century joinery including doors, architraves, and two staircases. The 17th-century wing features chamfered ceiling beams. The roof above one house has a late 16th-century jointed cruck truss with side-pegged posts running down to the ground, a morticed ridge with a diagonal ridge-piece and threaded purlins (now absent). The remainder of the roof is 20th century. The barn has an 18th-century pegged roof.
Local climate
The Lawn Including Barn at Rear (North East) receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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