Threshing Barn and Horse Engine House in the Farmyard South West of South Yarde Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 October 1988. Barn, engine house.
Threshing Barn and Horse Engine House in the Farmyard South West of South Yarde Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- idle-arch-fog
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 October 1988
- Type
- Barn, engine house
- Address
- Threshing Barn and Horse Engine House in the Farmyard South West of South Yarde Farmhouse, Rose Ash
- OS grid reference
- SS 771 212
- Coordinates
- 50.97732, -3.75143
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a threshing barn and horse engine house, dating from the early 19th century, and possibly a refashioning of an earlier barn. It is constructed of stone rubble, with the barn featuring a slate roof that is gabled at both ends, while the horse engine house has been re-roofed with corrugated iron. The buildings are positioned at right angles to the farmhouse on a north-south axis, with the horse engine house located on the east side. The barn includes opposed double threshing doors, which have stone checks on both the west and east sides, and timber plank doors. Inside, there are nailed 'A' frame trusses that reflect an early 19th-century style. This structure is part of a remarkably well-preserved group of farm buildings at South Yarde farm and is very important to the setting of the nearby grade I medieval house.
Local climate
Threshing Barn and Horse Engine House in the Farmyard South West of South Yarde Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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