Barn Approximately 4 Metres West Of Coombe Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 March 1988. A C16 Barn.

Barn Approximately 4 Metres West Of Coombe Farmhouse

WRENN ID
young-gable-larch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dartmoor National Park
Country
England
Date first listed
4 March 1988
Type
Barn
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This barn, located approximately 4 metres west of Coombe Farmhouse, dates from the early 16th century and was enlarged, likely in the 17th century. It was refurbished and converted around 1980. The original walls are made of coursed blocks of granite ashlar, with extensions and heavy patches of granite stone rubble, topped by a corrugated iron roof.

The barn faces southeast and is built across a hillside, with the back terraced into the slope. At the left end, there is now a one-room office with a first floor above it, while the right end has been converted into a two-room holiday cottage with bedrooms on the upper level. The central part of the barn remains open to the roof and is currently used as a storage area.

The main barn doorway, which is roughly central and original, features a flight of granite steps leading up to it and an early 16th-century oak shoulder-headed doorframe. The rear doorway, which would have led to the threshing floor, is now blocked. The holiday cottage on the right has an irregular two-window front and includes a front doorway. The office section on the left contains a doorway with a French window beside it and a first-floor window. All these openings feature 20th-century casement windows without glazing bars and contemporary part-glazed doors. The roof is gable-ended.

Inside, much of the interior reflects the 1980 refurbishment. The original roof structure had collapsed, but one of the original side-pegged jointed cruck roof trusses with a cambered collar has been re-erected in the office section. The storage area still contains remnants of the other trusses, most of which appear to be 17th or 18th-century A-frame trusses, along with at least one additional jointed cruck truss.

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