Cart Shed or Granary Approximately 15 Metres South of Thorndon Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. Cart shed, granary.
Cart Shed or Granary Approximately 15 Metres South of Thorndon Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- other-window-plum
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Devon
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cart shed, granary
- OS grid reference
- SX 517 924
- Coordinates
- 50.71239, -4.10088
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building is a cart shed with a granary, dating from the late 18th century, located approximately 15 metres south of Thorndon Farmhouse. It features stone rubble walls on the ground floor, with cob above, and has a gable-ended corrugated iron roof. The structure has a rectangular plan, consisting of a 4-bay open-fronted cart shed on the ground floor and a granary above, which is accessed by steps at the right-hand gable end. The building is two storeys high, with the ground floor front divided into four bays by monolithic granite uprights that support cross beams inside. At the centre of the first floor, there is a 3-light timber window with square set mullions and iron stanchion bars. Steps at the right-hand gable end lead to the granary door.
Local climate
Cart Shed or Granary Approximately 15 Metres South of Thorndon Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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