Stables at Old Middlecott Farmyard is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. Stables.
Stables at Old Middlecott Farmyard
- WRENN ID
- final-lintel-evening
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dartmoor National Park
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Stables
- Address
- Stables at Old Middlecott Farmyard, Chagford, West Devon
- OS grid reference
- SX 715 861
- Coordinates
- 50.66095, -3.81811
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The stables at Old Middlecott Farmyard are likely from the 17th and 18th centuries. They are constructed of granite stone rubble with large dressed quoins and have a corrugated iron roof, which was originally thatch. The stable block is positioned to back onto the road and faces southeast into the farm courtyard. The left section of the building is slightly misaligned and may be the oldest part. It is connected at a right angle to the upper end of a milking parlour, which was the original farmhouse.
The exterior features a longer left-hand section with a central doorway flanked by small unglazed windows, along with a hayloft loading hatch. The right section has a doorway with a loading hatch above it, located next to a single small unglazed window. The roof is gable-ended, and the rear wall includes a hayloft loading hatch and some blocked slit windows.
Inside, the stables showcase plain but robust carpentry, including a roof supported by A-frame trusses with pegged lap-jointed collars. The collars over the right section are cambered. These stables are part of a charming group of traditional Dartmoor farm buildings, one of which is the milking parlour that served as the original farmhouse.
Local climate
Stables at Old Middlecott Farmyard receives an average of 930 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 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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