Barn About 10 Metres North of Colesworthy Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 November 1986. Barn.

Barn About 10 Metres North of Colesworthy Farmhouse

WRENN ID
hushed-plaster-spindle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dartmoor National Park
Constituency
Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 November 1986
Type
Barn
OS grid reference
SX 803 757
Coordinates
50.56886, -3.69147
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a barn located about 10 metres north of Colesworthy Farmhouse, dating from the 17th or 18th century. It is constructed of cob and features a half-hipped slated roof. The barn is a single storey with a large doorway in the centre of the south-west side, which has a wooden hood with a slated pent roof. There is a smaller doorway on the opposite wall. A triangular owl-hole is present in the south-east gable. The roof trusses have plain feet and collars that are pegged to the faces of the principal rafters.

Local climate

Barn About 10 Metres North of Colesworthy Farmhouse 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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