Partially-Ruined Longhouse Approximately 70m North-East of Babeny Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 October 1987. Longhouse. 2 related planning applications.

Partially-Ruined Longhouse Approximately 70m North-East of Babeny Farmhouse

WRENN ID
former-cellar-burdock
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dartmoor National Park
Constituency
Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 October 1987
Type
Longhouse
Address
Partially-Ruined Longhouse Approximately 70m North-East of Babeny Farmhouse, TQ13 7PS
OS grid reference
SX 672 751
Coordinates
50.56123, -3.87598
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a partially-ruined longhouse located approximately 70 meters northeast of Babeny Farmhouse, dating from the early to mid-16th century. The structure features granite rubble walls and has a gable-ended corrugated iron roof over the shippon and passage, while the house end is roofless. The layout includes a shippon on the left, with a passage, hall, and likely an inner room to the right. In front of the shippon is a lean-to that was probably originally a pigsty. Adjacent to the passage is a stone rubble porch with stone seats inside.

The right-hand wall of the passage, now the gable end, contains a large unchamfered granite-framed fireplace with a massive lintel and a stone oven on the left side. The rear wall of the hall remains up to head height and features some blocked window openings along with a larger, unclear opening at ground level. The lower gable end wall of the shippon includes large granite blocks and has a central drainage hole with a small opening above it. The rear wall of the shippon has a central inserted doorway flanked by two slits. Inside, the passage has a solid wall to the shippon with an original wooden shouldered-head doorframe. Babeny is noted as one of the 17 Ancient Tenements of the Forest of Dartmoor and is first mentioned in a document from 1260.

Local climate

Partially-Ruined Longhouse Approximately 70m North-East of Babeny Farmhouse receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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