Barn and Horse Engine House Approximately 5 Metres East of Wellesley Farmhouse
BARN AND HORSE ENGINE HOUSE APPROXIMATELY 5 METRES EAST OF WELLESLEY FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1164044
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Barn and Horse Engine House Approximately 5 Metres East of Wellesley Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- BARN AND HORSE ENGINE HOUSE APPROXIMATELY 5 METRES EAST OF WELLESLEY FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1164044
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Barn and Horse Engine House Approximately 5 Metres East of Wellesley Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- BARN AND HORSE ENGINE HOUSE APPROXIMATELY 5 METRES EAST OF WELLESLEY FARMHOUSE
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 HORSE ENGINE HOUSE APPROXIMATELY 5 METRES EAST OF WELLESLEY FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bishop's Tawton
- National Grid Reference:
- SS5998126747
Details
SS 52 NE
10/19
BISHOPS TAWTON
Barn and horse-engine house approximately 5 metres east of Wellesley Farmhouse
GV
II*
Barn and horse-engine house. Barn, possibly C16, horse-engine house added in C19.
Small shale stones. Slate roof with gable ends to barn, polygonal slate roof to
horse-engine house. Barn is rectangular on plan with right-angled gabled porch
projecting from right of centre on south side, with the horse-engine house
adjoining and parallel to it to the centre. North side of barn has large double
doors to cart entrance at lower end with original surround with jowled heads to the
jambs. Flanking buttresses with off-sets. Ventilation slit at left end. Small 2-
light window with timber surround to centre. Single door at upper end with timber
lintel flanked by buttresses. 2 sets of opposing double doors to south side, that
at lower end with weather-boarded gable end to projecting porch. Ventilation slits
to each gable end. Fine roof structure largely intact with 6 impressive raised
cruck trusses with apex strengthening pieces, arch-braced collars tenoned into
mortices to blade soffits, 2 tiers of purlins and diagonally set ridge purlin. The
second truss from the east end is closed with partly stone, partly plank partition.
The porch roof is also carried on a smaller raised cruck truss with similar collar
but without arch bracing. Massive horizontal winding beam survives to horse-engine
house. This is an unusually complete early barn.
Listing NGR: SS5998126747
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 98497
- 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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