Barn and Attached Stable About 5m East of Heckwood Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1987. A C17 Barn, stable.
Barn and Attached Stable About 5m East of Heckwood Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- frozen-step-raven
- 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, stable
- Address
- Barn and Attached Stable About 5m East of Heckwood Farmhouse, Whitchurch, West Devon
- OS grid reference
- SX 541 732
- Coordinates
- 50.54072, -4.06002
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building is a barn and attached stable, located about 5 meters east of Heckwood Farmhouse. The barn dates from 1607, as indicated by a scratch-carved inscription on a stone to the right of the entrance, while the stable is likely from the early to mid-19th century. The structure is built from granite rubble and features a dry slate roof for the barn and a corrugated asbestos roof for the stable.
The barn and stable are arranged in one range, with the barn on the right and the stable on the left, which has a lower roof level. The barn includes a central cart entry and a narrow door at the rear, while the stable has five doors leading to stalls that are separated by wooden partitions, with a loft above.
The barn's central cart entry is framed by granite monolith jambs, and there are remnants of pintles from early doors, along with a cambered timber lintel. The walls are slightly set forward on both sides, featuring large granite quoins on the right. There are granite ventilation slits in the upper gable ends on both sides, and the right gable end has a single-storey rubble lean-to attached. At the rear of the barn, there is a central door with an internal cambered timber lintel and granite monolith footings.
The stable has five doors with flat granite lintels, including a central loading door with a granite cill and two mounting steps to the left end. The right gable end also has an upper ventilation slit and a rubble lean-to.
Inside the barn, the front wall is supported by large blocks of metamorphic stone as footings. The barn features an eight-bay roof with 20th-century principal rafters, collars, and two rows of purlins. In the left gable end, there is a large drain with a granite lintel, which has been blocked.
Local climate
Barn and Attached Stable About 5m East of Heckwood Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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