The Great Barn, Coombe Farm
THE GREAT BARN, COOMBE FARM, WEMBURY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1107822
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jul-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The Great Barn, Coombe Farm
- Statutory Address:
- THE GREAT BARN, COOMBE FARM, WEMBURY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1107822
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jul-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The Great Barn, Coombe Farm
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE GREAT BARN, COOMBE FARM, WEMBURY ROAD
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:
- THE GREAT BARN, COOMBE FARM, WEMBURY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- South Hams (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Brixton
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 52755 51964
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 10/01/2012
SX 55 SW
3/13
BRIXTON
WEMBURY ROAD
The Great Barn, Coombe Farm
(Formerly listed as Barn, Shippen and Horse Engine House approximately 30 metres west of Combe Farmhouse)
GV
II
Barn with shippen wing and attached house engine house. Circa C16 or C17 barn.
Slate rubble. Low pitched corrugated asbestos roof. Ten bay barn with buttressed
walls at back and front, with set-offs to the buttresses. Ventilation slits high up
in walls and pigeon holes below. Ventilation slits also in north gable end and loft
door in south end. Opposing segmental arched cart entrances at centre.
Collar-braced roof of ten bays has been replaced with steel trusses clad in asbestos
sheeting.
Circa early C19 shippen adjoining south east at right angles, forming L-shaped plan.
Slate rubble. Slurried slate roof with gable end. Shippen doorways with wooden
lintels and loft door above.
Circa late C18 horse engine house on south west side of barn, slate rubble, polygonal
on plan with hipped slurried slate roof.
Listing NGR: SX5275551964
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 100294
- 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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