Outbuilding Approx One M NW of Higher Thorne Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 October 1988. Outbuilding, barn.
Outbuilding Approx One M NW of Higher Thorne Cottage
- WRENN ID
- lone-storey-jay
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 October 1988
- Type
- Outbuilding, barn
- OS grid reference
- SS 418 163
- Coordinates
- 50.92455, -4.25096
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an outbuilding located approximately one meter northwest of Higher Thorne Cottage. It is a Grade II listed structure that was originally a threshing barn, shippon, and calf house. The shippon dates back to the 17th century, while the barn and calf house were added in the early 19th century. The building is constructed of cob set on a stone plinth and features corrugated iron and asbestos roofs. It has an L-shaped plan, with the barn on the left side and the calf house in a projecting wing to the right. There are timber lintels above the 19th-century plank doors. The calf house extends towards the rear door of Higher Thorne Cottage and includes a central 20th-century stable door. Inside, the building has A-frame trusses with pegged collars, trenching for through purlins, and notched apexes. This outbuilding is included for its group value with Higher Thorne Cottage.
Local climate
Outbuilding Approx One M NW of Higher Thorne Cottage 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 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% 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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