Barn and Attached Outbuilding Immediately to South-West of Lower Court is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 February 1988. Barn and outbuilding.

Barn and Attached Outbuilding Immediately to South-West of Lower Court

WRENN ID
hushed-paling-peregrine
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Devon
Constituency
Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 February 1988
Type
Barn and outbuilding
Address
Barn and Attached Outbuilding Immediately to South-West of Lower Court, Meeth
OS grid reference
SS 547 081
Coordinates
50.8548, -4.06486
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The barn and attached outbuilding, located immediately to the south-west of Lower Court in Meeth, is a Grade II listed structure. The barn likely dates from the late 18th century, while the attached building is from the 19th century. The barn features rendered cob walls, and the attached building has a rubble wall.

The barn has a threshing floor positioned to the right of the center, and at its left end, there is a separate section that was once used as a forge. An open-fronted single-storey building projects from the left-hand end of the barn, which may have served as either a cattle shelter or a cart/implement shed.

In terms of exterior features, the barn is a single storey with a loft above the left-hand end. It has an asymmetrical front with a cart entrance to the right of center, flanked by buttresses. To the left, there is an original wood-framed slit opening and a narrower door towards the left-hand end, which has an enlarged loading hatch above it. The open-fronted four-bay building that projects from the left-hand end of the barn is divided by wooden posts.

Inside the barn, there is a late 19th-century King post and raking strut roof, while the attached building has a rough A-frame roof with lapped curved collars.

Local climate

Barn and Attached Outbuilding Immediately to South-West of Lower Court 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 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% 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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