Shippon Immediately to East of Higher Cliston is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 October 1987. Shippon.

Shippon Immediately to East of Higher Cliston

WRENN ID
half-sill-magpie
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Devon
Constituency
Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 October 1987
Type
Shippon
Address
Shippon Immediately to East of Higher Cliston, Sampford Courtenay
OS grid reference
SS 619 019
Coordinates
50.80036, -3.96056
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This building is a shippon, dating from the late 18th century or early 19th century. It features cob walls and a hipped slate roof, with a rectangular plan divided into two parts. The structure is one storey high with a loft. The front is asymmetrical, having a door to the left of centre, a window to its right, and a loading hatch above. There is a 20th-century corrugated iron lean-to on the front of the right-hand side. Inside, there is a re-used chamfered ceiling beam on the ground floor and a pegged A-frame roof structure.

Local climate

Shippon Immediately to East of Higher Cliston sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 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 75% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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