Sydenham Barton is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 November 1985. Farmhouse.
Sydenham Barton
- WRENN ID
- shifting-brass-gold
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Devon
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 November 1985
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Sydenham Barton, Marystow
- OS grid reference
- SX 427 838
- Coordinates
- 50.63339, -4.22481
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sydenham Barton is a farmhouse with origins from the 18th century or earlier, which was extended and remodeled in the 19th century. It is constructed of stone rubble and features a slate roof that is gabled at both ends. The building has one projecting stone stack, one stack on the ridge, and one lateral stack on the north front, forming an L-plan layout. The west block may retain elements of a late 17th-century design, originally consisting of three rooms and a through passage, with one rear right projecting lateral stack. A second stack, now internal, may have heated the hall.
Adjoining the coach house and stables to the north of Sydenham House is a wing at right angles to the west block, likely a later addition. There is also a single-storey south-facing addition to the west block, which was probably originally used as a dairy. The building has two storeys and a three-bay west front. While the fenestration is symmetrical, the front door is not centered, resulting in two rooms at the higher end and one at the lower end. The structure features freestone quoins and flat stone arches over the openings. The front door is from the 20th century, and the windows are 19th or early 20th-century casements with three lights, each containing eight panes.
On the south front of the east wing, there is a 20th-century stone porch to the left. The ground floor has a four-light casement with ten panes per light, and the first floor has three two-light casements with square-headed panes under timber lintels. Inside, the building features 19th-century joinery and a 19th-century king post and strut roof throughout.
Local climate
Sydenham Barton sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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