The Great Barn, Coombe Farm is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 July 1984. Barn. 1 related planning application.
The Great Barn, Coombe Farm
- WRENN ID
- grey-slate-elder
- 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
- The Great Barn, Coombe Farm, Wembury Road, Brixton, PL9 0DE
- OS grid reference
- SX 527 519
- Coordinates
- 50.34912, -4.071
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Great Barn at Coombe Farm is a barn with an attached shippen wing and a horse engine house, dating from circa the 16th or 17th century for the barn itself. The barn is constructed of slate rubble, with a low-pitched roof of corrugated asbestos. It has ten bays, with buttressed walls at the front and back, featuring set-offs to the buttresses. There are ventilation slits high in the walls, with pigeon holes positioned below, and further ventilation slits in the north gable end. A loft door is located in the south end. Segmental arched cart entrances are positioned centrally. The original collar-braced roof of ten bays has been replaced with steel trusses clad in asbestos sheeting.
An early 19th century shippen adjoins the barn to the south east at a right angle, forming an L-shaped plan. It is also built of slate rubble with a slurried slate roof and a gable end. The shippen has doorways with wooden lintels and a loft door above.
A late 18th century horse engine house is situated on the south west side of the barn. It is constructed of slate rubble with a polygonal plan and a hipped slurried slate roof.
Local climate
The Great Barn, Coombe Farm 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 77% 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 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2010
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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