Thornfield Barn is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1986. A C17 Barn, stables. 1 related planning application.
Thornfield Barn
- WRENN ID
- high-gutter-jay
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1986
- Type
- Barn, stables
- Address
- Thornfield Barn, Westacott, Goodleigh, Barnstaple, EX32 7NF
- OS grid reference
- SS 585 327
- Coordinates
- 51.07687, -4.02049
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Thornfield Barn is a 17th-century barn and stables with a loft above. It features a stone rubble plinth supporting unrendered cob walls and has a corrugated asbestos roof with gable ends. The building is rectangular in shape, with stables located at the lower end. There is a stable plank door at the front and a two-light chamfered timber mullion window at the rear, positioned to the left of the loft plank door. Above the lean-to, there is a square loft opening at the gable end, and the barn has a wide opening at the rear. The roof structure consists of four raised cruck trusses, each resting on individual well-bedded short wall plates. It has two tiers of trenched purlins, which were originally fitted with collars tenoned into the soffits of the blades but have since been replaced with side-pegged collars. Additionally, one blade at the lower end of the barn has been replaced with a straight principal.
Local climate
Thornfield Barn sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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 — 1 application
- 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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