Stables Approximately 5 Metres North of Bush House is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 March 1988. A Early Modern Stables.
Stables Approximately 5 Metres North of Bush House
- WRENN ID
- empty-truss-willow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Devon
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 March 1988
- Type
- Stables
- Period
- Early Modern
- OS grid reference
- SX 698 968
- Coordinates
- 50.75624, -3.84675
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The stables, formerly a linhay, are located approximately 5 metres north of Bush House and date from the late 17th century or 18th century. They are constructed of plastered cob on stone rubble footings, with a weather-boarded front and a thatched roof.
The stable block faces southeast into the courtyard behind Bush House. Originally, it was an open-fronted linhay, except for the right end where the cob wall extends half a bay across the front. In the 20th century, the front was weather-boarded, and there are stable doors at each end with 20th-century windows above. The central portion has been altered to create a car port. The roof is half-hipped on the right side and gable-ended on the left, where it connects to a later stable block.
Behind this, the original five-bay front features large, roughly-finished crossbeams that rest on monolithic granite posts. Timber posts rise through the hayloft and curve inwards to clasp the outer principals of A-frame trusses, which have pegged lap-jointed collars. This stable, along with the outer thatched farm buildings associated with Bush House, creates an attractive group in the village.
Local climate
Stables Approximately 5 Metres North of Bush House receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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