Barn and Linhay at Old Middlecott Farmyard
BARN AND LINHAY AT OLD MIDDLECOTT FARMYARD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1106143
- Date first listed:
- 16-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Barn and Linhay at Old Middlecott Farmyard
- Statutory Address:
- BARN AND LINHAY AT OLD MIDDLECOTT FARMYARD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1106143
- Date first listed:
- 16-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Barn and Linhay at Old Middlecott Farmyard
- Statutory Address 1:
- BARN AND LINHAY AT OLD MIDDLECOTT FARMYARD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- BARN AND LINHAY AT OLD MIDDLECOTT FARMYARD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- West Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Chagford
- National Park:
- Dartmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SX7161886158
Details
SX 78 NW CHAGFORD MIDDLECOTT
4/138 Barn and linhay at Old
- Middlecott Farmyard
GV II
Barn and adjoining linhay. Barn may be as old as C16. Linhay added probably in
C18. Barn is built of roughly dressed blocks of granite, some of them massive, and
tending to courses, with some cob on the wall tops; linhay of granite stone rubble
with dressed quoins; both have corrugated iron roofs (both were formerly thatch).
Plan: L-shaped building around the eastern corner of Old Middlecott farmyard. The
barn faces north-west and has opposing central doors to the threshing floor. When
the linhay was added a narrow 1-bay byre entry was added on the left (north-eastern)
end and then a linhay built at right angles projecting forwards and facing south-
west.
Exterior: the barn has full height central doorway containing C19 plank doors and
flanked by short projecting midstrey walls and the roof above carried down as a hood.
Smaller rear door with old oak frame. C19 granite shed with a monopitch roof over
right end. At right end a C20 gate to byre. Linhay is 4 bays and is open-fronted
(except the right end 1 where front of byre walled with granite). Crossbeams of
linhay rest on granite post and short timber posts rise through tallet to support
roof trusses (Alcock's linhay type S2). Barn block roof is half-hipped to right and
hipped to left (over the added byre) and the lower roof of the linhay is gable-ended.
Interior has plain but sturdy carpentry detail. Both roofs comprise A-frame trusses
with pegged lap-jointed collars. Some of the timbers of the barn roof are reused
from an earlier roof.
This barn and linhay form part of an attractive group of traditional Dartmoor
farmbuildings, one of which, the milking parlour (q.v.) was originally the farmhouse
here.
Listing NGR: SX7161886158
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 94667
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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