BARN WITH ADJOINING HORSE ENGINE HOUSE, STABLE AND OUTBUILDING APPROXIMATELY 40 METRES TO SOUTH WEST OF WITHERHILL FARMHOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1146995
Date first listed:: 16-Feb-1989
List Entry Name:: BARN WITH ADJOINING HORSE ENGINE HOUSE, STABLE AND OUTBUILDING APPROXIMATELY 40 METRES TO SOUTH WEST OF WITHERHILL FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: BARN WITH ADJOINING HORSE ENGINE HOUSE, STABLE AND OUTBUILDING APPROXIMATELY 40 METRES TO SOUTH WEST OF WITHERHILL FARMHOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1146995
Date first listed:: 16-Feb-1989
List Entry Name:: BARN WITH ADJOINING HORSE ENGINE HOUSE, STABLE AND OUTBUILDING APPROXIMATELY 40 METRES TO SOUTH WEST OF WITHERHILL FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: BARN WITH ADJOINING HORSE ENGINE HOUSE, STABLE AND OUTBUILDING APPROXIMATELY 40 METRES TO SOUTH WEST OF WITHERHILL FARMHOUSE

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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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: BARN WITH ADJOINING HORSE ENGINE HOUSE, STABLE AND OUTBUILDING APPROXIMATELY 40 METRES TO SOUTH WEST OF WITHERHILL FARMHOUSE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Devon
District:: Torridge (District Authority)
Parish:: High Bickington
National Grid Reference:: SS6129520448

Details

HIGH BICKINGTON SS 62 SW 5/94 Barn with adjoining horse-engine - house, stable and outbuilding approximately 40 metres to south- west of Witherhill Farmhouse

GV II

Range of farmbuildings including barn, horse-engine house and stable. Probably early C18, with mid to late C19 additions. Cob on stone rubble plinth with squared and coursed stone piers flanking barn entrances. Addition of uncoursed stone rubble. Gable-ended late C19 clay tile and corrugated sheet (iron or asbestos) roof (probably formerly thatched). Plan: Range aligned approximately north-west/south-east, facing farmyard to north- east. C18 barn with central opposed cart entrances, stable with loft above to right and further farmbuildings to left. Mid to late C19 square-ended horse-engine house at the rear of the left-hand end of the barn with open side, and probably late C19 one-storey lean-to addition at the right-hand end of the range. Exterior: Barn with central pair of large plank doors (left-hand one 2-leaf) with wooden lintel and flanking stone piers (probably formerly supporting shallow porch). Stable to right has plank loft door to left, ground-floor C19 casement to right with brick dressings and wooden lintel and plank door to left with C19 brick dressings and wooden lintel. Row of 10 pigeon nesting-holes below eaves to right. Right-hand lean-to addition has plank door to front with wooden lintel. Central pair of large plank doors to rear of barn too. Interior: Probably early C18 five-bay roof with trusses consisting of straight principals and lapped pegged collars. Stable to right of barn has stone floors, old stalls and C18 A-frame roof trusses. Horse-engine house to rear of barn has very large spine beam. This building forms part of a farmstead group also including Witherhill Farmhouse (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SS6129520448

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Legacy System number:: 91709
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.