Byre Approximately 20 Metres South-West of Lower Corndon Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. A C17 Byre.
Byre Approximately 20 Metres South-West of Lower Corndon Cottage
- WRENN ID
- silver-steeple-dock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dartmoor National Park
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Byre
- OS grid reference
- SX 692 853
- Coordinates
- 50.65279, -3.85155
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The byre located approximately 20 metres south-west of Lower Corndon Cottage dates from the 17th century and was reroofed in the 20th century. It is constructed from granite stone rubble with large, roughly-dressed quoins and has a corrugated iron roof, which replaced the original thatch.
This small byre features a hayloft above and has a gable-end front facing east. The gable-end is clad with corrugated iron and includes two doorways, both fitted with plain 19th-century doors, and a 20th-century window. There is a hayloft loading hatch on the right (north) side towards the front, and the roof is gable-ended.
Inside, the hayloft is supported by two neatly soffit-chamfered crossbeams that rest on granite corbels. The roof consists of 20th-century A-frame trusses, but there is evidence of the original roof structure. One raised cruck truss remains, sitting on a granite corbel, while the other corbels are still intact. The surviving original carpentry is of unusually high quality for an agricultural building.
Local climate
Byre Approximately 20 Metres South-West of Lower Corndon Cottage 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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