Barn About 4m West of Wringworthy Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1987. Barn.
Barn About 4m West of Wringworthy Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- lost-rood-vale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dartmoor National Park
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 January 1987
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Barn About 4m West of Wringworthy Farmhouse, Mary Tavy, West Devon
- OS grid reference
- SX 500 772
- Coordinates
- 50.5756, -4.11974
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This barn, located about 4 meters west of Wringworthy Farmhouse, dates from the early 16th century but has been incorporated into a rebuilt structure with alterations and a 19th-century roof. It is built from a mix of slatestone, Hurdwick and granite rubble, with Hurdwick stone dressings and dressed stone quoins, topped with a slate roof. The barn has a rectangular plan and is divided into two sections, featuring a loft above.
The two-storey barn has a tall opening on the left side with a timber lintel that serves as a cill for the upper floor opening. There are paired lancet windows, which are chamfered and formed from a single block of Hurdwick stone, located at both the ground and first floors. The ground floor lancet has recessed spandrels. To the right, there is a wooden doorway with a round head, and a later lean-to structure that has a door with a granite lintel. An open-fronted lean-to is situated on the left side.
The left return of the barn features a ventilation slit in the gable end, while the right return has two openings in the lean-to and large granite quoins to the right. The rear of the lean-to also has a similar paired lancet window made of Hurdwick stone. The rear of the barn includes a central opening with a timber lintel. Inside, the gable end on the left return appears to have been rebuilt above wall level, and the barn has a 19th-century four-bay roof with principal rafters, collars, and one row of purlins.
Local climate
Barn About 4m West of Wringworthy Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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