The Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 December 1985. Barn.
The Barn
- WRENN ID
- western-facade-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lancaster
- Constituency
- Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 December 1985
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- The Barn, Main Street, Melling-With-Wrayton
- OS grid reference
- SD 597 710
- Coordinates
- 54.13391, -2.6171
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Barn is a barn built in 1795, constructed from watershot sandstone and topped with a stone slate roof. It features an original outshut on the south-west side, which includes a recessed wide entrance with a segmental arch. To the left of this entrance are breathers on the ground floor and a pitching hole with plain reveals above. On the right side, there is a door with long-and-short jambs. The left-hand gable wall, which faces the road, has three shippon doors with long-and-short jambs, along with a similar door to the right leading to the outshut. Between and above these doors are additional breathers. Under the apex of the gable wall is a semi-circular keyed opening with a plain stone surround. Above this opening is a circular owl hole, which has a stone surround inscribed with 'RR 1795'.
Local climate
The Barn sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,320 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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