Barn and Horse Engine House, Covered Entrance and Former Stables Approximately 20 Metres to West of Great Barlington Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 February 1989. Barn, horse engine house, stables.

Barn and Horse Engine House, Covered Entrance and Former Stables Approximately 20 Metres to West of Great Barlington Farmhouse

WRENN ID
grey-attic-khaki
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Torridge
Constituency
Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 February 1989
Type
Barn, horse engine house, stables
OS grid reference
SS 566 164
Coordinates
50.92959, -4.04146
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

A barn, horse engine house, covered entrance and former stables, likely dating from the early 18th century, with minor alterations and additions in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The building is constructed of cob on a stone rubble plinth, with gable-ended corrugated-iron and asbestos roofing (formerly thatched). Some additions are of squared snecked stone with red brick dressings and Welsh slate roofs.

The range of buildings faces a farmyard to the east, situated on ground that slopes to the right. The 18th-century barn is located to the left, featuring opposed cart entrances and a square-ended horse engine house projecting at a right angle from its right-hand end. A circa 1900 lean-to addition is situated in front of the right-hand end of the barn. To the right is a lower 18th-century range, comprising a covered farmyard entrance and a former stable (now a milking parlour), with another lean-to addition constructed around 1900 in front.

The barn's left-hand entrance has a pair of large plank doors (the right-hand door being two-leaf), with a wooden lintel. Two narrow vents are located to the left of the entrance, one of which is blocked. A circa 1900 lean-to addition is present to the right of the entrance, featuring two doorways. A triangular owlhole is found in the gable end of the barn’s left-hand side. The rear of the barn also has a pair of plank doors. The right-hand range incorporates the covered farmyard entrance, open to the eaves, with flanking stone piers and wooden lintels. The former stable has a row of five pigeon nesting holes below the eaves. A small circa 1900 lean-to addition is situated in front of the stable.

Inside the barn, the 18th-century roof consists of seven bays with pegged trusses, featuring straight principals and lap-jointed collars. The horse engine house retains a substantial spine beam and some line shafting. The roof of the right-hand range also has an 18th-century structure with straight principals and collars.

The building forms part of a complete farmstead group, including Great Barlington Farmhouse and a range of shippons. It holds group value in this context.

Local climate

Barn and Horse Engine House, Covered Entrance and Former Stables Approximately 20 Metres to West of Great Barlington Farmhouse 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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