Barn Immediately North of South Ash Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1990. Shippon.
Barn Immediately North of South Ash Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- former-mantel-thunder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1990
- Type
- Shippon
- Address
- Barn Immediately North of South Ash Farmhouse, King's Nympton
- OS grid reference
- SS 687 207
- Coordinates
- 50.97087, -3.87073
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building is a shippon located immediately north of South Ash Farmhouse, dating from the early 19th century. It is constructed of cob on a tall stone rubble plinth and features a hipped roof made of corrugated iron. The shippon has a rectangular plan with a central entrance at the front.
The exterior is two storeys high, with a symmetrical north front that includes a central doorway and a loft door above. On either side of the ground floor doorway are small square windows, all of which have wooden lintels. The rear wall is blind.
Inside, there are three roughly chamfered cross-beams that support the loft floor, and wooden mangers are located on the rear wall of the shippon. The roof structure includes straight principals with halved lapped collars.
Local climate
Barn Immediately North of South Ash Farmhouse receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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