Barn and Shippon Approximately 45 Metres to North West of West Molland Barton at Ss 7928 2852 is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 November 1988. Barn, shippon.
Barn and Shippon Approximately 45 Metres to North West of West Molland Barton at Ss 7928 2852
- WRENN ID
- gentle-latch-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 November 1988
- Type
- Barn, shippon
- OS grid reference
- SS 792 285
- Coordinates
- 51.04331, -3.7234
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a barn and shippon located approximately 45 metres to the north-west of West Molland Barton. It dates from the 18th century, with late 19th-century alterations and additions. The structure is made of roughly-squared and coursed stone from the 18th century, along with uncoursed stone rubble from the 19th century, featuring some red-brick dressings around the openings. It has a gable-ended roof covered with Welsh slate.
The layout is an L-plan range, with the 18th-century shippon oriented approximately north-east to north-west and facing south. The 19th-century barn is positioned at a right angle to the rear of the left-hand end of the shippon, incorporating some materials from what was likely a former 18th-century rear wing. The barn has eight bays, with a cart entrance on the south-west side and evidence of a former horse-engine house on the north-east side, indicated by the line of the gable on the wall.
The exterior of the shippon features a loft opening that is off-centre to the left, a boarded stable-type door to the right with a wooden lintel, and two 20th-century boarded doors to the left with concrete lintels. There is also a loft door in the right-hand gable end. The south-west front of the barn has an off-centre cart entrance to the left, two low boarded doors, and a shallow porch with stone side walls and a pent roof above. The rear of the barn includes two segmental-headed doorways with brick arched heads, one of which has a half-height boarded door. There is an opening in the centre of the wall that was formerly used for a drive from the now-demolished horse-engine house. The right-hand gable end of the barn, which adjoins the shippon, has a boarded loft door and a boarded-over window in the apex of the gable above. There are ground-floor openings to the right with two boarded doors and a doorway to the left with a boarded door, all featuring brick segmental arched heads.
Inside, the barn has an eight-bay roof supported by king-post trusses, and some line shafting remains.
Local climate
Barn and Shippon Approximately 45 Metres to North West of West Molland Barton at Ss 7928 2852 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 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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