WEST BARN APPROXIMATELY 23 METRES NORTH OF LAND FARM HOUSE

West Barn, Membury, Axminster, EX13 7UE

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Overview

Former mid- to late-C19 barn, converted to residential use in the late C20. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1305866
Date first listed:: 19-Oct-1984
List Entry Name:: WEST BARN APPROXIMATELY 23 METRES NORTH OF LAND FARM HOUSE
Statutory Address:: West Barn, Membury, Axminster, EX13 7UE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1305866
Date first listed:: 19-Oct-1984
Date of most recent amendment:: 16-Oct-2013
List Entry Name:: WEST BARN APPROXIMATELY 23 METRES NORTH OF LAND FARM HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: West Barn, Membury, Axminster, EX13 7UE

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.

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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:: West Barn, Membury, Axminster, EX13 7UE

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

County:: Devon
District:: East Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: Membury
National Grid Reference:: ST2608005203

Summary

Former mid- to late-C19 barn, converted to residential use in the late C20.

Reasons for Designation

West Barn, a mid- to late-C19 former agricultural building, is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:

* Legibility: despite conversion, the original function of the building: a barn with central taking-in doors, remains legible;

* Group value: forms a coherent group with the C16 Land Farm House to the south and the mid- to late C19 former stables, Land Cottage and Lancet Barn, to the east, which are both listed at Grade II.

History

The List entry for West Barn describes the building as C18. It is not depicted on the 1842 tithe map which suggests that the building is no earlier than the mid-C19. The barn is first shown on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey map (1890) orientated north to south, with an east range projection at the north end and a diagonally projecting range to the south. The east range originally linked with the former agricultural building (now Lancet Barn and Land Cottage) to the east, creating a U-shaped plan. The western half of the range has since been demolished. These agricultural buildings which were converted to dwellings in the late C20 were formerly associated with the Grade II listed Land Farm House to the south. This early-C16 farmhouse was the birthplace of Thomas Wakley (1795-1862), surgeon and medical reformer, and founder of the medical journal ‘The Lancet’.

Drawings submitted with the planning application (1988) for its conversion indicate that West Barn appears to retain its double-height space to the centre of the main part with first-floor bedrooms to either end, while the east range is a kitchen and a garage. It is understood that the south wing serves as an outbuilding.

Details

Materials: it is constructed of rubble stone under a slate tile roof. The south elevation of the principal range is slate hung.

Plan: L-shaped barn, orientated north to south with an angled range running from the south end of the barn.

Exterior: the former barn is of one and a half storeys with a gabled roof. The principal elevation (east) comprises a former cart entrance at the centre with cambered arch. To the left is a gable with tall window, formerly a taking-in door. To the right is the surviving west half of the single-storey range with Roman tiles to the roof. The south elevation of the barn is slate hung and has two tall windows at first floor.

Interior: not inspected (2013).

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 88096
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Title: Membury Tithe Map Source Date: 1842 Author: Publisher: Surveyor:

Legal

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