Barnfield Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1986. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.

Barnfield Cottage

WRENN ID
rusted-lintel-wind
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Devon
Constituency
North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 March 1986
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Barnfield Cottage, Bratton Fleming, EX31 4RT
OS grid reference
SS 639 374
Coordinates
51.12029, -3.94467
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Barnfield Cottage is a tenement farmhouse, likely built in the 17th century, with an extension added in February 1985. The building features whitewashed rendered stone rubble and cob, topped with a thatch roof that has gable ends. There are stacks at the right end, including a drip and an axial rubble stack. The layout consists of single cells on each side of a lobby entrance, with a two-storied extension at the left end that incorporates parts of a former shippon and possibly the original site of a cross-passage.

The main range is two storeys high and three windows wide, featuring 19th-century two-light casements, two of which retain L-hinges. Flanking the 20th-century rubble porch and half-glazed door are two additional 20th-century two-light casements. At the rear, there are outshuts with corrugated iron roofs. Inside, there is a cambered chamfered and stopped fireplace lintel at the right end stack, and a moulded plaster cornice partially survives in the room to the left of the lobby entrance, along with some old joinery. The roof structure consists of pegged trusses with straight principal rafters and waney common rafters, showing no signs of smoke-blackening.

Local climate

Barnfield Cottage 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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