The Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 June 1985. Farm building.
The Barn
- WRENN ID
- plain-tower-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Chester North and Neston MP: Samantha Dixon (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 June 1985
- Type
- Farm building
- Address
- The Barn, High Street, Neston
- OS grid reference
- SJ 291 776
- Coordinates
- 53.2909, -3.06473
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Barn is a late 17th-century farm building that has been converted into a store, with alterations made in the 19th century. The structure features coursed squared red sandstone, although the rear has been replaced by brick. It has a slate roof adorned with ogee moulded kneelers and stone copings. The building is single storey and consists of three bays, built on sandstone bedrock that is exposed up to 600mm above the paving level on the street side.
The front has a softwood ledged and battened door set in a heavy frame, positioned 1 meter above the paving level. There are three blocked windows, two of which are located at eaves level. The rear side includes softwood double doors and a blocked window. The right gable end features a softwood boarded door in a chamfered frame and a single fixed-light window near the apex. Inside, the building has oak strutted trusses and wind-braced misshapen purlins.
Local climate
The Barn sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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