Wallover Barton is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1986. A C17 Farmhouse.

Wallover Barton

WRENN ID
winter-passage-laurel
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
Wallover Barton, Challacombe
OS grid reference
SS 681 384
Coordinates
51.12972, -3.88604
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Wallover Barton is a farmhouse dating from the 17th century, with additions from the 19th century. It is constructed of colourwashed rendered rubble and features slate roofs with gable ends. The building has an axial stack and a stack at the left gable end, both with brick shafts. The entire southwest side is slate-hung. The layout consists of a 3-cell through-passage plan, with a stack at the inner end of the hall, a right-angled wing at the front lower end that has a truncated gable end stack, likely from the early 19th century, and a right-angled wing at the centre rear, which dates to the late 19th century. The farmhouse is two storeys high and has a three-window range of horned sash windows, with three over three panes, above a two-light hall window with six panes per light. There are 20th-century porches on each side; the left porch has a flat roof in the angle of the L-shape, while the upper end features a lean-to roof covered in asbestos slate. On the southwest side, at the lower end, there are three sashes, all with six over six panes. The leftmost sash is initialled and dated 1868, situated above two larger sashes with eight over eight panes. Inside, one 17th-century roof truss, which was originally fitted with threaded purlins, remains. The interior also retains much of its 19th-century joinery, including a separate staircase leading to the former servants' quarters over the upper end.

Local climate

Wallover Barton 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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