Mays Leary Farmhouse, Including Stable, Shippon and Slaughter House Adjoining at East End is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 May 1987. Farmhouse.

Mays Leary Farmhouse, Including Stable, Shippon and Slaughter House Adjoining at East End

WRENN ID
long-forge-ivy
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Devon
Constituency
North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 May 1987
Type
Farmhouse
OS grid reference
SS 663 296
Coordinates
51.05048, -3.90814
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Mays Leary Farmhouse, which includes an attached stable, shippon, and slaughter house at the east end, is a farmhouse likely dating from the early 18th century, with extensions probably added in the late 18th century. The stable, shippon, and slaughter house were built in the mid-19th century. The farmhouse features rendered stone rubble and cob construction with a half-hipped thatch roof. There is a partially demolished stack at the left end and an axial brick stack.

The original layout of the farmhouse consists of two heated principal rooms on either side of a passage, with stairs at the rear. Two additional rooms were likely added in the late 18th century to the right side, with the axial stack (originally at the gable end) heating the left-hand room. The right-hand room was formerly a dairy and has a loft above. It is possible that the farmhouse was once divided into two separate occupations.

The stable, shippon, and slaughter house extend from the right end, forming an L-shaped plan and are two storeys high. The 19th and 20th century windows include two 2-light casements with six panes per light on the left side, above three-light casements with six panes per light, flanking a lean-to slate roof porch with an inner plank door. On the right side, there are two 2-light casements with six panes per light on the left and a 2-light casement with three panes per light on the ground floor to the right of a lean-to slate roof porch. The original windows, including a 2-light casement with square leaded lights, remain intact at the rear.

The interior joinery on the ground floor is largely preserved, with doorways featuring timber lintels leading to the stable and shippon. At the right end of the shippon, there is a partially infilled cart entrance, indicating that this area may have originally served as a barn. The slaughter house, which projects at a right angle from the right end, is still in use and retains all its 19th-century fittings, including a timber axle and wheel hoist and a brick floor.

Local climate

Mays Leary Farmhouse, Including Stable, Shippon and Slaughter House Adjoining at East End 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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