Barn Approximately 70 Metres West South West of Lower Holscombe is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1993. Barn.
Barn Approximately 70 Metres West South West of Lower Holscombe
- WRENN ID
- rough-minaret-foxglove
- 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 732 558
- Coordinates
- 50.38885, -3.78452
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building is a bank barn located approximately 70 metres west-southwest of Lower Holscombe, dating from the late 18th century or early 19th century. It features a steeply pitched corrugated iron roof with half-hipped ends and has a long rectangular plan. The barn has shippon doorways on the lower south front and two barn doors at the higher north side at the back.
The exterior is two storeys tall with a symmetrical south front that includes six shippon doorways with flat slate arches and two loading doors above, located towards the centre, all covered by corrugated iron canopies supported by wooden cantilevers. At the rear, there are two barn doorways with large roughly hewn timber lintels and later boarded double doors, also with corrugated iron canopies on wooden cantilevers. Ventilation slits are present in the gable ends.
At the left end of the south front, there is a single-storey wing with a hipped roof and an open front, featuring a central rectangular stone rubble pier, likely serving as a cattle shelter, with pegged roof trusses. Inside the barn, the walls are plastered.
Local climate
Barn Approximately 70 Metres West South West of Lower Holscombe 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 87% 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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