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Summary

Home Barn is an ensemble of domestic and service buildings arranged around an open courtyard comprising a dining hall with attached accommodation wing, a former laundry building, and associated walling with an archway. Refurbished in the 21st century.

Location

Protected Status

• Listed Building (II) 1494087: Home Barn with attached former laundry and walls, Gullet Farm Estate, South Pool, South Hams

Other References/Statuses: none recorded

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• ESTATE BUILDING (Early 20th Century - 1930 AD (Throughout) to 1930 AD (Throughout))
• ESTATE LAUNDRY (Early 20th Century to Late 20th Century - 1930 AD (Between) to 1970 AD? (Between))

Full description

Historic England, 2025, National Heritage List for England 2025 (National Heritage List for England). SDV366287.

Home Barn built in 1030 as a place for hosting guests, with a service wing and a laundry building attached by a rendered brick arch, and with staff accommodation to the first floor. An archway with a clock and bellcote, together with tile-topped garden walling formed the entrance to newly laid formal gardens, which adjoined a walled kitchen garden with glasshouses. These features were commissioned from well-regarded specialist designers, with Herbert Read responsible for the design of the archway, garden walls and parts of the formal garden layout. A home dairy farm was built to the east of the gardens, with further farm buildings and a stable block on the site of Higher Barn. The overall intention appears to have been to separate the farm’s working functions from the domestic setting of the farmhouse. Home Barn was refurbished in the 21st century.

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