Barn and Adjoining Outbuildings Approximately 40 Metres to South West of Brown's Marsh Farmhouse
BARN AND ADJOINING OUTBUILDINGS APPROXIMATELY 40 METRES TO SOUTH WEST OF BROWN'S MARSH FARMHOUSE, MARSH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1288634
- Date first listed:
- 24-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Barn and Adjoining Outbuildings Approximately 40 Metres to South West of Brown's Marsh Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- BARN AND ADJOINING OUTBUILDINGS APPROXIMATELY 40 METRES TO SOUTH WEST OF BROWN'S MARSH FARMHOUSE, MARSH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1288634
- Date first listed:
- 24-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Barn and Adjoining Outbuildings Approximately 40 Metres to South West of Brown's Marsh Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- BARN AND ADJOINING OUTBUILDINGS APPROXIMATELY 40 METRES TO SOUTH WEST OF BROWN'S MARSH FARMHOUSE, MARSH LANE
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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 ADJOINING OUTBUILDINGS APPROXIMATELY 40 METRES TO SOUTH WEST OF BROWN'S MARSH FARMHOUSE, MARSH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- North Molton
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 72517 27500
Details
NORTH MOLTON MARSH LANE SS 72 NW 13/168 Barn and adjoining outbuildings - approximately 40 metres to south- west of Brown's Marsh Farmhouse II Barn and adjoining outbuildings. Probably mid to late C18 with early C19 additions and late C19 or early C20 alterations. Coursed stone rubble, with cob to rear and at right hand end. One late C19 brick lean-to addition. Welsh slate roof, hipped to right and half-hipped to left. Slate and corrugated iron over lean-to additions. Plan: Barn to left, facing south, and shippon with loft above to right. Lean-to pigstys to right of barn door and early C20 lean-to addition to left of barn door, possibly small petrol engine house replacing former horse-engine. Exterior: Large boarded double doors to barn (left-hand door 2 leaf), with wooden lintel. Late C19 lean-to addition to left with boarded door in right-hand return. Probably C19 former pigstys to right of entrance with 2 low openings to front (pens demolished). Boarded door at rear of barn and loft door in left-hand end wall. Shippon to right with square loft opening and ground-floor boarded door with wooden lintel. Boarded door to right-hand return front with wooden lintel. Interior: Five-bay roof with C18 trusses consisting of principal rafters and collars. Late C19 or early C20 rafters. Metal shaft projecting through wall on wooden saddle, probably formerly drive shaft from external horse engine. Interior of shippon with late C19 or early C20 three-bay roof. Stone wall between shippon and barn, probably farmer end wall of barn. Post in ground in front of left-hand end of barn is possibly the remains of a former horse-engine (not necessarily with permanent housing).
Listing NGR: SS7251727500
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 399107
- 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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