The Westleigh Inn Including Barn Attached at Right (East) End is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 May 1986. Public house. 1 related planning application.

The Westleigh Inn Including Barn Attached at Right (East) End

WRENN ID
unlit-cellar-marsh
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Devon
Constituency
North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 May 1986
Type
Public house
Address
The Westleigh Inn Including Barn Attached at Right (East) End, EX39 4NL
OS grid reference
SS 471 286
Coordinates
51.03717, -4.18162
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Westleigh Inn, which includes a barn attached at the right (east) end, is a public house that likely began as a tenement farmhouse. It may have origins dating back to the early 16th century and was remodeled, probably in the 17th century, with some alterations made in the 20th century. The barn is from the 19th century. The building is constructed of rendered stone rubble and some cob, topped with a slate roof. It features a tall rendered former hall stack with offsets and a tapered cap, along with a rendered stack at the left end.

Originally, the inn had a three-room through-passage plan with a front lateral hall stack, but the partitions for the through-passage and hall/inner room have been removed to create two larger rooms. There is a 20th-century right-angled rear wing of two storeys, giving the overall structure a T-shaped plan. The inn is two storeys high and has a four-window range. The windows are 19th or 20th-century two-light casements, with four panes per light in the two centre windows, and two panes per light at the right end, as well as two panes per light with margin glazing bars at the left end.

A gabled slate roof covers the porch that leads to the former through-passage, which has a plank door with the upper half glazed. There is also an inserted plank door providing entry into the former hall to the right of the stack. Concealed by the barn at the right gable end is an early timber mullion window featuring two pointed trefoil-headed lights. The adjoining barn, which is at a higher elevation, has double plank doors flanked by two lean-tos, with the right lean-to having a scantle slate roof. The roof structure of the inn has been entirely replaced in the 20th century.

Local climate

The Westleigh Inn Including Barn Attached at Right (East) End receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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