Barn and Attached Stable About 8m East of Sampford Barton Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1987. Barn, stable.

Barn and Attached Stable About 8m East of Sampford Barton Farmhouse

WRENN ID
pitched-courtyard-wind
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dartmoor National Park
Constituency
Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 January 1987
Type
Barn, stable
Address
Barn and Attached Stable About 8m East of Sampford Barton Farmhouse, Sampford Spiney, West Devon
OS grid reference
SX 528 714
Coordinates
50.52402, -4.07773
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The building is a barn and attached stable, located about 8 meters east of Sampford Barton Farmhouse. It dates from the early to mid-19th century and incorporates earlier materials, with some later alterations. The structure is built from granite and slatestone rubble, featuring granite dressings and a dry slate roof with ridge coping.

The barn is designed as a bank barn, with a central cart entry at the rear and a central entrance at the front. It has two 19th-century window openings with 12 panes; the left window has a granite lintel, while the right has a concrete lintel. The barn also features a central elliptical-headed granite chamfered doorway, a loading door above with a hood extending from the main roof's pitch, and ventilation slits under the eaves on both sides. The right side has granite quoins, some of which are chamfered, and there is a drain at the front left.

The stable to the left has a 19th-century 6-pane light with brick segmental heads on both sides, a similar central granite doorway with pyramid stops, a central ventilation slit under the eaves, and a drain to the left. The granite doorways may have been reused from the original farmhouse. The left side of the stable features an external stair made of 8 granite steps, a loft door with a brick segmental head, and a triangular set of pigeonholes in the gable end. There is also a later rubble lean-to attached to the rear of the stable.

On the right side of the barn, there is a line of roof raising in the gable end and a loading door with a cambered brick head, along with a 20th-century single-storey addition. The rear of the barn, which is at a higher ground level, has a central cart entry that corresponds to the front loading door, with a hood extended from the pitch of the main roof and ventilation slits under the eaves on both sides.

Inside, the barn has a 5-bay roof supported by scissors trusses and principal rafters, with two rows of purlins. The stable features a similar 3-bay roof and splayed reveals to the openings under the eaves.

Local climate

Barn and Attached Stable About 8m East of Sampford Barton Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% 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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