Barn Approximately 2.5 Metres North of West Week Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 March 1988. Barn.
Barn Approximately 2.5 Metres North of West Week Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- idle-railing-pearl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dartmoor National Park
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 March 1988
- Type
- Barn
- OS grid reference
- SX 656 926
- Coordinates
- 50.71768, -3.90436
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This barn, located approximately 2.5 metres north of West Week Farmhouse, is likely from the 17th century and was reroofed in the 20th century. It is constructed of granite stone rubble with large quoins and has a corrugated iron roof. The barn is built down a gentle slope and faces east. Originally, there were opposing doorways to the threshing floor, but the smaller rear doorway has been blocked. The large front doorway is nearly full height but is currently missing its doorframe and doors.
At the right end of the barn, there is a horse engine house, probably from the 19th century, which projects forward. This engine house has a semi-hexagonal end, and its hipped roof is supported by monolithic granite posts. It no longer contains any machinery and has been converted into a woodshed by filling most gaps between the posts with granite stone rubble. There is also a secondary storage shed against the left end of the barn front. The main roof is gable-ended to the right and hipped to the left, with the roof structure replaced in the 20th century.
This barn is part of a group of buildings associated with West Week Farmhouse, which together represent one of the best collections of traditional granite buildings in this area of Dartmoor.
Local climate
Barn Approximately 2.5 Metres North of West Week Farmhouse 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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