Farmbuilding About 6 Metres South West of Higher Rexton Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 January 1986. Farmbuilding.
Farmbuilding About 6 Metres South West of Higher Rexton Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- woven-stone-weasel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 January 1986
- Type
- Farmbuilding
- OS grid reference
- SX 401 891
- Coordinates
- 50.67974, -4.26437
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a farmbuilding located about 6 meters south west of Higher Rexton Farmhouse, dating from the early 19th century. It features a cartshed with a threshing loft above, as well as an adjoining horse engine house. The structure is built of stone rubble and has a hipped slate roof, while the horse engine house has a pyramidal slate roof. The building is two storeys high. The cartshed includes four ground floor entrances that have cambered heads, stone voussoirs, and keystones. There is a large first floor entrance to the left, which is covered by a slate canopy supported by shaped timber brackets. The horse engine house at the rear has a polygonal end, and the internal beam remains intact.
Local climate
Farmbuilding About 6 Metres South West of Higher Rexton Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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