Courtyard of Farmbuilding Approximately 8 Metres South-West of Waye Barton is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. Courtyard of farmbuilding.

Courtyard of Farmbuilding Approximately 8 Metres South-West of Waye Barton

WRENN ID
dreaming-spire-russet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dartmoor National Park
Constituency
Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
Country
England
Type
Courtyard of farmbuilding
OS grid reference
SX 688 869
Coordinates
50.66708, -3.85707
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The courtyard of farm buildings, located approximately 8 metres south-west of Waye Barton, is now used as stables. Likely built in the late 18th to early 19th century, with some parts possibly dating back to the 17th century, the structure is made of granite stone rubble with large dressed quoins and originally had a thatched roof, which has since been replaced with corrugated iron.

The layout consists of three ranges of buildings surrounding a long and narrow farmyard that includes a dung pit. All buildings face into the courtyard, and while their original functions are not entirely clear, the north-eastern range was likely stables from the start, while the south-western range was probably cow byres. Each range has haylofts above.

On the exterior, the long south-west range is supported by several broad raking stone rubble buttresses. Four of the five compartments have doorways with small windows to the right. The rightmost compartment features a doorway with one slit window to the left and three to the right. The hayloft has additional slit windows, three at each end, with two hayloft loading hatches in between. The roof is gable-ended.

The south-eastern range is a 3½ bay linhay that connects the two other ranges, with only the ground floor currently open-fronted. The hayloft above is clad in corrugated iron, and granite posts support the crossbeams. The posts are set into the tops of the beams to support A-frame trusses of Alcock's type S2. The north-eastern range has doorways at both ends, a pair of small windows in between, and a hayloft loading hatch to the left of centre, with a gable-ended roof.

Inside, the carpentry details are plain yet sturdy, featuring A-frame trusses with pegged or spiked lap-jointed collars. The dung pit in the centre of the yard is lined with granite and terraced into the slope, and it is still in use.

Local climate

Courtyard of Farmbuilding Approximately 8 Metres South-West of Waye Barton sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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