Barn, Cartshed and Stables at Morwellham Farm Including Launder to the North West is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1987. Barn, cartshed, stables.

Barn, Cartshed and Stables at Morwellham Farm Including Launder to the North West

WRENN ID
over-lintel-lichen
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Devon
Constituency
Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 January 1987
Type
Barn, cartshed, stables
OS grid reference
SX 443 699
Coordinates
50.50823, -4.19667
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The building is a barn, cartshed, and stables at Morwellham Farm, dating from around the mid-19th century. It is constructed from local shale rubble and slate, featuring gabled ends. The structure is L-shaped, with a barn on the left, a three-bay cartshed in the center, and stables in a projecting wing to the right.

The barn on the left is a single storey with steps leading up to a wide doorway that has double doors, and there is a lean-to shed on the left side of the front. The central three-bay cartshed is open-fronted and supported by two monolithic granite square posts topped with large square granite lintels. Above the cartshed, there are three loft openings with slatted louvres.

To the right, the stables project with a gable that includes a ground floor window, a loft opening, and a ventilation slat above, along with a doorway on the left return. At the rear, there is a doorway in the barn on the right and loft doorways over the cartshed and stables to the left. At the far right end, five rectangular slate rubble piers support the launder that provides water to the water wheel inside the barn.

Inside the barn, at the left (wet) end, there is an overhot coater wheel with rim drive and a wooden chaff conveyor. The roof retains its 19th-century pegged and bolted trusses.

Local climate

Barn, Cartshed and Stables at Morwellham Farm Including Launder to the North West sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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