The Tithe Barn is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 March 1960. Barn.
The Tithe Barn
- WRENN ID
- upper-bronze-bramble
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Hams
- Constituency
- South West Devon MP: Rebecca Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 March 1960
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- The Tithe Barn, Wembury
- OS grid reference
- SX 514 495
- Coordinates
- 50.32746, -4.0885
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Tithe Barn is an 18th-century barn that has been converted into a house. It is constructed of rough ashlar stone and features a chamfered plinth. The building has a steeply pitched slate roof with gabled ends, each topped with ball finials. There are two tiers of ventilation slits along the sides. A central gabled midstrey, also adorned with a ball finial, includes round pitching eyes with keystones that have moulded cornices. The gable apex has a rectangular window with similar keystones. Below, there is a cart entrance with a segmental arch that has a keystone and monolithic granite jambs. Above this entrance, a round-arched tablet displays the Calmady arms and a date from the 17th century, framed by a moulded architrave. A large segmentally arched loft doorway is located in the gable end. The rear of the barn has been significantly altered, featuring 20th-century windows and a balcony.
Local climate
The Tithe Barn 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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