Barn and Horse Engine House Approximately 5 Metres East of Wellesley Farmhouse is a Grade II* listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1986. A C16 Barn and engine house.
Barn and Horse Engine House Approximately 5 Metres East of Wellesley Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- tilted-plaster-cobweb
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1986
- Type
- Barn and engine house
- OS grid reference
- SS 599 267
- Coordinates
- 51.02299, -3.99784
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The barn and horse-engine house, located approximately 5 metres east of Wellesley Farmhouse, is a structure that dates back to possibly the 16th century, with the horse-engine house added in the 19th century. It is constructed from small shale stones and features a slate roof with gable ends for the barn and a polygonal slate roof for the horse-engine house. The barn has a rectangular plan with a right-angled gabled porch that projects from the right of the centre on the south side, while the horse-engine house is adjacent and parallel to it.
On the north side of the barn, there are large double doors for cart access at the lower end, which have an original surround with jowled heads on the jambs. Flanking buttresses with offsets support the structure, and there is a ventilation slit at the left end. The centre features a small two-light window with a timber surround, and at the upper end, there is a single door with a timber lintel, flanked by buttresses. The south side has two sets of opposing double doors, with the lower end featuring a weather-boarded gable end to the projecting porch. Ventilation slits are present at each gable end.
The barn's roof structure is largely intact, showcasing six impressive raised cruck trusses with apex strengthening pieces, arch-braced collars tenoned into mortices on the blade soffits, two tiers of purlins, and a diagonally set ridge purlin. The second truss from the east end is closed with a partition made of partly stone and partly plank. The porch roof is supported by a smaller raised cruck truss with a similar collar but without arch bracing. Additionally, a massive horizontal winding beam remains in the horse-engine house. This barn is noted for being an unusually complete example of an early barn.
Local climate
Barn and Horse Engine House Approximately 5 Metres East of Wellesley Farmhouse receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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