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Summary

Bank Barn, southeast of Week, Berry Pomeroy

Location

Protected Status

• Listed Building (II) 1108576: BARN IMMEDIATELY SOUTH EAST OF WEEK

Other References/Statuses: none recorded

Monument Types: none recorded

Full description

Wapshott, E. & Webb, P., 2019, Farmhouse, Week, Berry Pomeroy, South Hams: Building Recording and Evalution (Report - Survey). SDV363337.

South West Archaeology Ltd. (SWARCH) was commissioned by a private client to undertake historic building recording and evaluation trenching as part of a programme of works associated with the re-development of the Grade II* Listed Week Farmhouse, Berry Pomeroy, South Hams, Devon. The evaluation trenching does not add much detail to the information provided by the building recording.

No structural features were identified within the trenches; though sections of low wall adjacent to one of the trenches indicates the presence of an additional former structure at the south-eastern edge of the current yard, possibly dating to the 18th-19th century farmyard. The construction cut for the terracing into the hillside was identified within Trench 01; whilst Trenches 02 and 03 only identified a modern yard surface directly overlying the natural, suggesting that any buried trace of former structures has likely been lost.

This building is a large rectangular two-storey bank barn on a north-west to south-east alignment. It
is set slightly apart from the north-eastern end of the farmhouse, but forms the north-eastern range of the yard. As with the farmhouse it has been set within the slope of the ground, the north-eastern side and northern corner only visible at first floor height. The ground floor walls have been constructed of flat-laid semi-coursed slatestone slabs in a clay bond, with a later lime pointing; whilst the first floor has been constructed of slatestone rubble with lime mix mortar. The structure has a shallow pitched roof of corrugated sheeting with rolled tin ridges, over good spiked and half-lap jointed A-frames.

The ground floor has been divided into compartments with modern partitions and renovated to form secure storage, with inserted concrete floors. The loft floor has been completely replaced during the 20th or early 21st centuries with modern boards and joists; and the first-floor space kitted out as a workshop with freestanding timber units and cabinets.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8203 - Building Recording and Evalution: Farmhouse, Week, Berry Pomeroy, South Hams (Ref: 190902)

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