Barn Approximately 1.5 Metres North of Ford 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 1.5 Metres North of Ford Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- little-window-moss
- 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 643 935
- Coordinates
- 50.72595, -3.92265
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a threshing barn with a horse engine house, dating from the late 17th century to early 18th century. It is constructed of partly plastered granite stone rubble with some cob, and originally had a thatched roof, now replaced with slate. The barn is oriented on a north-south axis and features two opposing doorways leading to the threshing floor, which is located south of center. The east doorway, which opens into the farm courtyard, is smaller than the west doorway, and neither is full height. There is a centrally located hayloft loading hatch on the east side. The roof is hipped at the south end and gable-ended at the north.
At the north end of the west side, there is a 19th-century horse engine house that projects outward at right angles and has a semi-hexagonal end. This structure is open-sided, supported by low rubble walls on either side and a series of monolithic granite posts. Inside, it contains a large beam but no machinery remains, and its roof is also hipped. The interior of the barn is open to the roof and retains its threshing floor made of oak planks set on granite sets. The roof structure consists of five bays with A-frame trusses and pegged lap-jointed collars.
Local climate
Barn Approximately 1.5 Metres North of Ford 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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