Outbuilding (Bakehouse and Pigsty) Immediately South East and South of Welcombe Barton is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1989. Outbuilding.

Outbuilding (Bakehouse and Pigsty) Immediately South East and South of Welcombe Barton

WRENN ID
lesser-spire-hawthorn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Torridge
Constituency
Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 June 1989
Type
Outbuilding
OS grid reference
SS 229 183
Coordinates
50.93724, -4.52104
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This building is an outbuilding that includes a bakehouse and adjoining pigstys, located immediately southeast and south of Welcombe Barton. The bakehouse dates from the 17th century, while the pigstys were built around the early 19th century.

The bakehouse is constructed of stone rubble and features a roof that has been lowered to a monopitch, which is now clad in corrugated asbestos. It has a rectangular single-cell plan with a large fireplace and oven at the west end, and a doorway at the center of the north front. Originally, it was likely a single-storey structure. There is now an additional doorway in the rear south wall, and the east end is open.

On the exterior, the north front has a central doorway with a rough timber lintel and a relieving arch, although the door itself is missing. Above the doorway, there is a row of 14 pigeon holes, some of which have slate ledges. At the northeast corner, where the bakehouse adjoins the barn, there is projecting masonry resembling a diagonal buttress.

Inside, the large open fireplace at the west end has dressed stone jambs and a chamfered timber lintel with straight cut stops. The oven, which is clay lined, has an arched opening and projects from the side of the stack inside the building.

The pigstys are a long, narrow rectangular range to the west of the bakehouse, also built of stone rubble, with a slate gable-ended roof featuring ridge tiles, one of which is an early crested ridge-tile. There are feeding hatches on the north side facing the south end of the house. The interiors of the pigstys were not inspected but are said to be used as an office.

Local climate

Outbuilding (Bakehouse and Pigsty) Immediately South East and South of Welcombe Barton sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,170 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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