Barn Adjoining East of Higher Luscombe Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1993. Barn.

Barn Adjoining East of Higher Luscombe Cottage

WRENN ID
riven-eave-thunder
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Hams
Constituency
South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 April 1993
Type
Barn
OS grid reference
SX 795 571
Coordinates
50.40142, -3.69635
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The barn adjoining the east of Higher Luscombe Cottage is a Grade II listed building, likely dating from the 18th century, and was converted into stables in the early 20th century. It is constructed from local stone rubble and features a corrugated iron roof, with a gable end on the left side that abuts Higher Luscombe Cottage and a hipped end on the right. The barn is positioned at right angles to the higher end of the cottage, with a rectangular plan that has its back facing a lane at a higher level, while the front opens into a yard in front of the house.

The barn is two storeys high. The front elevation has a blocked barn doorway located to the right of the center, which has a timber lintel, and an inserted window. To the left of the center is an early 20th-century stable doorway with brick jambs, along with a window to the far left, also featuring brick jambs. Above the left end of the front, there is a row of pigeon holes with slate flight ledges. The rear of the barn, which faces the lane, has an early 20th-century barn doorway on the left with plank doors, and on the right, there are external steps leading up to a loft doorway. Inside, the barn has a softwood scissor-braced roof from the 20th century.

Local climate

Barn Adjoining East of Higher Luscombe Cottage receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 6 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% 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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