Barn West of Molescombe House is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1991. Barn.
Barn West of Molescombe House
- WRENN ID
- muted-cellar-crimson
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Hams
- Constituency
- South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1991
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Barn West of Molescombe House, Stokenham, TQ7 2LH
- OS grid reference
- SX 782 418
- Coordinates
- 50.26421, -3.71018
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The barn west of Molescombe House is a structure likely dating from the late 17th century or 18th century, which was remodeled in the 19th century. It is built of slate rubble and features an asbestos slate roof with half-hipped and gabled ends. The barn has a long plan with a cart entrance located to the right of the center at the front and a small blocked opening at the rear. During the 19th century, the barn was reduced in height and reroofed, with the new roof extending down at the front to create a cattle shelter facing the farmyard. At the front of the left-hand end, there is a 19th-century barn that adjoins at right angles.
The exterior showcases a main roof that extends over the open-fronted cattle shelter, supported by large rectangular slate rubble piers, with the bay to the right of center being wider and gabled in front of the cart entrance to the barn behind. The barn wall contains various small openings, including ventilation slits that were cut short by the 19th-century roof. Inside, the walls are plastered, and there are truncated ventilation slits. The barn features a 14-bay 19th-century scissor-braced softwood roof structure.
Local climate
Barn West of Molescombe House receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows 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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