Barn with Attached Horse Engine House Circa 20 Metres South East of Great Halfsbury Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 January 1988. Barn, horse-engine house.
Barn with Attached Horse Engine House Circa 20 Metres South East of Great Halfsbury Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- standing-oriel-dawn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 January 1988
- Type
- Barn, horse-engine house
- OS grid reference
- SS 613 174
- Coordinates
- 50.9402, -3.97464
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a barn with an attached horse-engine house, located about 20 meters southeast of Great Halfsbury Farmhouse, and likely built in the early 19th century. The structure is made of unrendered cob on stone rubble footings, with the right gable end rebuilt in brick and the left gable end in concrete block. It features a slate roof with gable ends, while the horse-engine house has a polygonal slate roof. The barn has a unique design, with the front and rear walls curving in a quarter-round shape and twin opposing cart entrances. The horse-engine house extends to the left of the rear right-hand entrance. Each entrance retains double plank doors, except for the front left-hand entrance. The entrances are sheltered by porches formed by rounded cob projections that support a continuous slate pent roof over both entrances. The horse-engine house is open-sided, with its polygonal slate roof supported by timber posts, and it still has a horizontal winding beam in place.
Local climate
Barn with Attached Horse Engine House Circa 20 Metres South East of Great Halfsbury Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 76% 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 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% 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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