Coach House and Stables Approximately 10 Metres Ot West Iof Upcott Barton is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 February 1989. Coach house, stables.

Coach House and Stables Approximately 10 Metres Ot West Iof Upcott Barton

WRENN ID
forbidden-flue-pearl
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Torridge
Constituency
Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 February 1989
Type
Coach house, stables
OS grid reference
SS 563 154
Coordinates
50.92093, -4.04531
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The coach house and stables, located approximately 10 metres to the west of Upcott Barton, date from the late 18th century and were enlarged in the late 19th century. The building is constructed from roughly squared and coursed stone with cob on the first floor, featuring corrugated-iron cladding on the front and a corrugated-iron roof that is gable-ended at both the front and back. The late 19th-century additions are made of uncoursed stone rubble with some red-brick dressings and gable-ended Welsh slate roofs.

The layout includes a former coach house on the right, which is gable-ended at both the front and back, facing south. There are blocked doorways in the side walls, and it is likely that the building served another function, possibly as stables, before being converted into a coach house when two ranges of stables were added at right angles to the left in the late 19th century. The structure has one storey and a loft, along with one-storey stable ranges.

On the exterior, the front gable end features a boarded loft door with 19th-century red-brick dressings and a wide ground-floor entrance framed in wood. There are small narrow ground-floor vents in the left-hand side wall, each with stone lintels. The rear gable end has a 19th-century three-light mullioned wooden window with a wooden lintel, which was inserted into a former loft doorway, indicated by straight joints and projecting stones that serve as steps. To the left, there is a ground-floor boarded door with a wooden lintel and three small ground-floor vents with stone lintels, one of which is blocked and another partly blocked. The rear corner has been rebuilt, as shown by the straight joints. The late 19th-century stables have boarded doors with wooden lintels and inserted windows.

Inside, there are blocked ground-floor side doorways with splayed jambs, and the narrow vents also feature splayed jambs. The loft is supported on cross beams.

Local climate

Coach House and Stables Approximately 10 Metres Ot West Iof Upcott Barton sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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