Barn Approx 8m NW of Great Huxhill Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 October 1988. Barn.
Barn Approx 8m NW of Great Huxhill Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- secret-corridor-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 October 1988
- Type
- Barn
- OS grid reference
- SS 494 235
- Coordinates
- 50.99122, -4.14717
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a 17th-century barn located approximately 8 meters north-northwest of Great Huxhill farmhouse in Weare Giffard. The barn features rendered stone and cob construction with a gabled corrugated iron roof. It is positioned along a slope, with storage bays on the left (west) side and a shippon at the lower end on the right. There are timber lintels above two 20th-century doors, an inserted doorway at the rear of the shippon, and a muck-hole in the right gable. Inside, the barn has a four-bay roof, with mid-19th century collar trusses on the left and a 17th-century principal-rafter truss with a ridge purlin set in a notched apex on the right.
Local climate
Barn Approx 8m NW of Great Huxhill Farmhouse receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% 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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