Wall with Entrance and Attached Outbuildings to South of West Challacombe Manor is a Grade II listed building in the Exmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 December 1992. A Medieval Outbuilding.
Wall with Entrance and Attached Outbuildings to South of West Challacombe Manor
- WRENN ID
- third-frieze-smoke
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Exmoor National Park
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 December 1992
- Type
- Outbuilding
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Wall with Entrance and Attached Outbuildings to South of West Challacombe Manor, West Challacombe Lane, Combe Martin, North Devon
- OS grid reference
- SS 586 475
- Coordinates
- 51.20957, -4.02482
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is an outbuilding located to the southeast of West Challacombe Manor, dating from the 15th century, with some truncation and alterations made in the 19th century. It is constructed of local coursed rubble stone and features a slate roof, while the north gable wall is built on bedrock. The building consists of a two-storey outbuilding attached to a one-storey lean-to, which has a corrugated iron roof.
The outbuilding retains two bays of a former seven-bay structure that originally ran north-south. The south gable wall of the outbuilding is not tied in and is likely a 19th-century addition. The lean-to to the south is built against the remaining east wall of the outbuilding.
Inside, there is one surviving raised cruck truss, with the feet of the blades positioned just below loft level, resting on wooden pads in the walls. The small square yoke is tenoned and pegged into the blades, and the collar is cranked and pegged, marked with carpenter's mark III. The roof includes 19th and 20th-century purlins, rafters, and a ridge. There are also remains of a truss blade and pad in the east wall where the inserted south gable meets the east wall, along with four additional pads with infill where blades would have been located in the east wall beneath the lean-to.
This outbuilding is included for its group value, the retention of 15th-century fabric, and its relationship to the 15th-century manor house, representing a fragmentary but rare example of a 15th-century outbuilding within a small manor house complex, and it groups with the wall and entrance of the same date.
Local climate
Wall with Entrance and Attached Outbuildings to South of West Challacombe Manor sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,160 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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