Barn and Shippen Immediately North West of Higher Luson is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 July 1984. Barn.
Barn and Shippen Immediately North West of Higher Luson
- WRENN ID
- tangled-cloister-root
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Hams
- Constituency
- South West Devon MP: Rebecca Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 July 1984
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Barn and Shippen Immediately North West of Higher Luson, Holbeton
- OS grid reference
- SX 602 500
- Coordinates
- 50.33356, -3.965
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a barn with an attached shippen located immediately northwest of Higher Luson, dating from the 18th century. The structure is built from stone rubble and features a slate roof with both hipped and half-hipped ends. It has two storeys, with the shippen on the ground floor, which includes flat stone arched doorways, one of which has a red brick surround. Above the shippen is the barn loft, which has ventilation slits and 20th-century wooden stairs leading to double doors at the center. On the left side, there are two raking stone rubble buttresses. The right end (east) has a stone rubble wall that dates from the 19th century. This building is included for its group value.
Local climate
Barn and Shippen Immediately North West of Higher Luson receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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