Threshing Barn and Adjoining Horse Engine House About 10 Metres South West of Mornacott Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 October 1988. Barn.

Threshing Barn and Adjoining Horse Engine House About 10 Metres South West of Mornacott Farmhouse

WRENN ID
moated-beam-hyssop
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Devon
Constituency
North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 October 1988
Type
Barn
OS grid reference
SS 764 271
Coordinates
51.02996, -3.76344
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a threshing barn and an adjoining horse engine house, located about 10 meters southwest of Mornacott Farmhouse. Likely built in the 1870s, it is probably contemporary with other farm buildings at Mornacott. The structure is made of stone rubble and features a slate roof, gabled at the ends of the barn and hipped at the end of the horse engine house.

The barn has a large rectangular shape with a threshing loft above a shippon. The horse engine house is situated in the center on the north side and has a canted north end. On the south elevation, which faces the yard, there are seven 19th-century doors and four windows on the ground floor, along with three loft doors. The rear elevation is symmetrical, featuring tall paired 19th-century doors leading to the threshing floor, flanked by the horse engine house, and smaller 19th-century doors on either side.

The interior of the threshing barn was not inspected, but a beam remains in the horse engine house. This building has group value with Mornacott Farmhouse and other nearby farm buildings.

Local climate

Threshing Barn and Adjoining Horse Engine House About 10 Metres South West of Mornacott 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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