Cider Barn About 150 Metres Sse Of Combefishacre House

The Cider Barn, located about 150 meters southeast of Combefishacre House, is a cider house dated 1827. It is constructed from local grey limestone rubble and features a low-pitched wide-span roof with gabled ends, which has been re-clad in corrugated asbestos.

The building has a rectangular plan with a central spine wall that originally supported loft floor beams, although much of this wall and the floor have been largely removed. The exterior is two storeys high and presents an asymmetrical five-bay west front facing the road. This front includes doorways on the left and in the center, the latter with a simple canopy, and a first-floor doorway to the right, which has a small stone tablet inscribed with "JS 1827." The first floor also has small square window openings with wooden frames and mullions. Similar first-floor windows can be found at the rear (east) of the building, which also has 20th-century roofless outshuts. The south gable end contains small square window openings, while the north gable end features a 20th-century window and doorways on the ground floor, including a large vehicular entrance that has been enlarged from an original opening.

Inside, most of the floor and the central spine wall have been removed, but a section remains in the northwest corner. This floor features stop-chamfered beams with run-out stops. The barn boasts a fine 10-bay roof structure with very wide-span tie-beam and collar trusses, including queen-posts over the tie-beams and king-posts over the cambered collars, complete with purlins and common-rafters. The cider-making machinery has been removed.

The inscription "JS 1827" refers to John Shepperd of Combefishacre House, who built the cider house. This barn is a rare example of a large early commercial scale cider house in Devon.