Barn and Adjoining Horse Engine House and Stable Approximately 10 Metres to North East of Lower Ward Farmhouse
BARN AND ADJOINING HORSE ENGINE HOUSE AND STABLE APPROXIMATELY 10 METRES TO NORTH EAST OF LOWER WARD FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1326628
- Date first listed:
- 16-Feb-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Barn and Adjoining Horse Engine House and Stable Approximately 10 Metres to North East of Lower Ward Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- BARN AND ADJOINING HORSE ENGINE HOUSE AND STABLE APPROXIMATELY 10 METRES TO NORTH EAST OF LOWER WARD FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1326628
- Date first listed:
- 16-Feb-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Barn and Adjoining Horse Engine House and Stable Approximately 10 Metres to North East of Lower Ward Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- BARN AND ADJOINING HORSE ENGINE HOUSE AND STABLE APPROXIMATELY 10 METRES TO NORTH EAST OF LOWER WARD 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.
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 HORSE ENGINE HOUSE AND STABLE APPROXIMATELY 10 METRES TO NORTH EAST OF LOWER WARD FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Torridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Yarnscombe
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 55284 23801
Details
YARNSCOMBE SS 52 SE 4/273 Barn and adjoining horse-engine - house and stable approximately 10 metres to north-east of Lower Ward Farmhouse
GV II
Barn and stable. Probably late C18 or early C19, with later alterations. Cob on roughly squared and coursed stone plinth, partly rebuilt in stone rubble. Gable- ended Welsh-slate roof, probably formerly thatched. Stone rubble horse-engine house with hipped corrugated-iron roof. Plan: Barn to west with horse-engine house to rear and shippon with loft over adjoining to east. Facing south. Barn with opposed cart entrances, probably formerly with 2 pairs of double doors to front (right hand entrance since blocked). Left-hand end and rear of barn rebuilt, probably in the later C19. Eaves raised probably in the late C19 or early C20 (see band of different coloured cob under eaves). Exterior: Barn to left formerly with pair of cart entrances to front, divided and flanked by projecting piers with pent-roofed porch over. Left-hand entrance has large boarded double doors (one 2-leaf) with strap hinges and right-hand entrance is blocked. Boarded loft door to left with strap hinges. Stable to right with loft doorway, 2 ground-floor window openings with wooden lintels and central ground floor doorway. Left-hand window with c1900 brick dressings and right-hand window reduced in height at some time. Blocked doorway to left of left-hand window (see straight joints and wooden lintel). Opposed large boarded double doors to rear of barn with wooden lintel. Interior: C19 six-bay barn roof with trusses consisting of principal rafters, tie- beams and raking struts. Horse-engine house with heavy longitudinal beam, roof truss with low collar and raking struts (second truss since dismantled). This barn and stable form part of a farmstead group, also including Lower Ward Farmhouse (qv).
Listing NGR: SS5528423801
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 91889
- 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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