Bennah Cottage and Barn Adjoining is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 March 1988. A Post-medieval Cottage, barn.
Bennah Cottage and Barn Adjoining
- WRENN ID
- swift-stone-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dartmoor National Park
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 March 1988
- Type
- Cottage, barn
- Period
- Post-medieval
- OS grid reference
- SX 834 845
- Coordinates
- 50.64856, -3.65049
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bennah Cottage and the adjoining barn are located in Christow and are believed to be a miner's cottage, likely built in the late 18th century. The cottage is constructed of whitewashed, rendered cob and stone, topped with a slate roof that has gabled ends and features end stacks with brick shafts. The barn is made of cob and has a corrugated iron roof.
The cottage is probably designed with a single-depth, two-room layout, with a central entrance leading into a passage. It stands two storeys high with a symmetrical three-bay front, which includes a gabled timber porch and a 19th-century plank door in the center. The windows are small-pane timber casements with two lights. The barn, located at the left end, features a mullioned window.
On the rear elevation of the cottage, there is a back door, two ground floor windows, and one first floor window. The barn has a large central doorway, a smaller door to the left, and a window to the right. Although the interior has not been inspected, it may still have original features. This cottage and barn are well-preserved examples of roadside buildings and hold group value with Bennah Farmhouse and Bennah House.
Local climate
Bennah Cottage and Barn Adjoining receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% 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 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% 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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