Shippon and Pig-Sties Approximately 20 Metres to South-West of Venton Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1987. Shippon and pig-sties.
Shippon and Pig-Sties Approximately 20 Metres to South-West of Venton Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- rough-minaret-fog
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Devon
- Constituency
- South West Devon MP: Rebecca Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1987
- Type
- Shippon and pig-sties
- OS grid reference
- SX 497 670
- Coordinates
- 50.48408, -4.11973
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building is a shippon with attached pig-sties, located approximately 20 metres to the south-west of Venton Farmhouse in Buckland Monachorum. It features rubble walls and a gable-ended slate roof, and is divided into two sections: the left side serves as a shippon, while the right side may have been a stable. In front of the right side, there are two pig-sties. The building is two storeys high with an asymmetrical front. In the centre, there are two doorways with timber lintels. The pig-sties project to the right, featuring a feeding hatch on the left end wall. To the left of centre, there is a wide doorway with a stone arch, along with two slit openings on the ground floor and a small window on the first floor above. The left-hand gable end includes a stone-framed single light on the ground floor.
Local climate
Shippon and Pig-Sties Approximately 20 Metres to South-West of Venton Farmhouse 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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