Barton Court and Adjoining Barn and Outbuildings is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 February 1989. Farmhouse.

Barton Court and Adjoining Barn and Outbuildings

WRENN ID
floating-turret-frost
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Torridge
Constituency
Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 February 1989
Type
Farmhouse
OS grid reference
SS 573 179
Coordinates
50.94315, -4.03232
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Barton Court, along with its adjoining barn and outbuildings, is a farmhouse that has been converted into a house. It likely dates from the late 17th century or early 18th century, with later alterations and additions from the late 18th century or early 19th century, including the barn, and a minor addition from the late 19th century or early 20th century. There have also been minor alterations in the late 20th century. The house has a rendered front, likely over cob, and painted stone rubble at the rear, topped with a gable-ended thatched roof featuring brick end stacks. The rear wing has a roof covered with 20th-century clay tiles. The barn is constructed from uncoursed stone rubble, with some cob above the entrance, and has a gabled-ended roof covered with 20th-century clay tiles. There is also a stone and cob outbuilding with a half-hipped corrugated-iron roof.

The building has a two-room central-entrance plan and is positioned at right angles to the road, facing south. It features integral brick end stacks and likely has a later wing that projects at right angles to the rear, possibly from the late 18th century or early 19th century, with a late 19th-century lean-to outshut in the angle. The barn, which is attached to the right-hand end of the house, is probably a late 18th-century addition, potentially altering an earlier barn, as indicated by a small section of cob. There is also a low range of outbuildings, likely from the late 18th century or early 19th century, projecting at right angles from the front of the left-hand end. The house is two storeys tall, while the outshut and outbuildings are single storey.

The exterior features a symmetrical two-window front with 2-light small-paned wooden casements. There is a central late 20th-century lean-to stone porch with a panelled door. The range of outbuildings on the left has two plank doors with wooden lintels. The barn at the right-hand end of the house has a central pair of large plank doors with flanking buttresses, which are the remains of a shallow porch, and a wooden lintel with cob above. The left-hand gable end of the house has a 2-light wooden casement on each floor and a projecting lean-to bread oven. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Barton Court and Adjoining Barn and Outbuildings 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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