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Latitude: 50.9954 / 50°59'43"N
Longitude: -4.0636 / 4°3'48"W
OS Eastings: 255284
OS Northings: 123801
OS Grid: SS552238
Mapcode National: GBR KQ.KQD3
Mapcode Global: FRA 26CH.4QB
Plus Code: 9C2QXWWP+4H
Entry Name: Barn and Adjoining Horse Engine House and Stable Approximately 10 Metres to North East of Lower Ward Farmhouse
Listing Date: 16 February 1989
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1326628
English Heritage Legacy ID: 91889
ID on this website: 101326628
Location: Yarnscombe, Torridge, Devon, EX31
County: Devon
District: Torridge
Civil Parish: Yarnscombe
Traditional County: Devon
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Devon
Church of England Parish: Yarnscombe St Andrew
Church of England Diocese: Exeter
Tagged with: Barn
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
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