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
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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- 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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