Barn (Formerly Old Kitchen) Approximately 60 Metres to North-North-West of the Garden House is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 March 1967. Barn.
Barn (Formerly Old Kitchen) Approximately 60 Metres to North-North-West of the Garden House
- WRENN ID
- waiting-landing-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Devon
- Constituency
- South West Devon MP: Rebecca Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 March 1967
- Type
- Barn
- OS grid reference
- SX 496 683
- Coordinates
- 50.49545, -4.12137
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a barn, originally the kitchen for a vicarage, located approximately 60 metres north-north-west of The Garden House. It dates from the early 16th century and features stone rubble walls with a gable-ended thatched roof, which is hipped over a stair projection.
This barn was once part of a larger complex, mostly demolished, that served as the former vicarage. The structure includes a large ground floor room with a massive fireplace at the gable end and a newel stair in a projection on the front wall leading to an upper room. The presence of slit windows at the gable end indicates that the building may have been converted to a barn, and its use certainly changed to that of a barn from the late 18th century onwards. At some point, the floor of the first-floor room was removed.
The barn is originally a single storey but was designed for two. Its front is asymmetrical, featuring a large stair projection to the right of centre with a curved front wall and straight side walls, which includes a hollow chamfered granite framed light. To the right of the stair projection on the first floor is a similar light, while to the left on the ground floor is a wide doorway with 20th-century plank doors, likely an enlargement of the original entrance. There are also two slit openings at the right-hand gable end, which are obscured by foliage.
Inside, the massive fireplace in the left-hand gable end occupies almost the full width of the room and has a chamfered dressed granite arch, now supported at the centre by a later stone pier. There are two stone ovens on the left side. A square-headed granite doorway with a double chamfer leads to the stone newel stairs, and the roof structure is a 20th-century king post design.
Local climate
Barn (Formerly Old Kitchen) Approximately 60 Metres to North-North-West of the Garden House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% 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 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% 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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