Outbuilding Approximately 15 Metres South West of Barton Town Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Exmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1986. Outbuilding.

Outbuilding Approximately 15 Metres South West of Barton Town Farmhouse

WRENN ID
scattered-chalk-sorrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Exmoor National Park
Constituency
North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 March 1986
Type
Outbuilding
OS grid reference
SS 679 405
Coordinates
51.14899, -3.88862
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This outbuilding, located approximately 15 metres south-west of Barton Town Farmhouse, is currently used as stables and a store-shed. It was originally part of Barton Farm before the current farmhouse was built in the late 19th century. The structure dates back to the 17th century, with a possible addition from the 18th century at the left end. It is constructed of stone rubble and features slate roofs of two different heights with gable ends.

There is a large rubble stack with slated weathering at the left gable end of the original range, and a stack with a demolished shaft at the left end of the 18th-century addition. The building was originally rectangular in plan and may have been a single cell or small two-cell farmhouse, with a gable entry on the south side of the stack and a winder staircase on the north side. It has two storeys, with two windows on each floor of the main range; the bottom left window is from the 19th century, while the others are from the 20th century.

The extension to the left is slightly recessed and has a 20th-century casement above a window opening, with a plank shutter to the left of the stable plank door. There is a blocked gable entry and a blocked doorway leading into a lean-to with a corrugated iron roof at the right gable end. A slate roof covers a low dairy outshut at the rear, which has a plank door. Inside, the upper floors have been removed, but there is a scroll-stopped chamfered lintel above the fireplace, and the roof timbers have been replaced.

Local climate

Outbuilding Approximately 15 Metres South West of Barton Town Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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