Barn and Shippon About 30 Metres East of Foales Leigh is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1993. Barn, shippon.
Barn and Shippon About 30 Metres East of Foales Leigh
- WRENN ID
- cold-moulding-burdock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Hams
- Constituency
- South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 April 1993
- Type
- Barn, shippon
- OS grid reference
- SX 764 580
- Coordinates
- 50.40932, -3.73951
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building is a barn and shippon located about 30 metres east of Foales Leigh, dating from the early to mid 19th century. It is constructed of slate rubble and features a slate roof with gabled ends. The structure has a rectangular plan, with shippons and cart sheds on the ground floor and a loft above.
The building is two storeys high, with stone stairs at the centre leading to a loft doorway that has a segmental red brick arch and a slated canopy. There is another loft doorway to the left, also featuring a red brick arch. The ground floor includes shippon doorways with red brick arches and a square window, as well as two small ventilation slits located below the eaves. The cart shed on the right has an unchamfered timber lintel. Access to the loft over the cart shed is provided by a wide loft doorway in the right-hand (south) gable end, with an additional loft doorway near the centre at the rear (east). The interior has not been inspected. The building is situated on the east side of the farmyard at Foales Leigh.
Local climate
Barn and Shippon About 30 Metres East of Foales Leigh 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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