Barn at Softley Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Barnsley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 July 1986. Barn.
Barn at Softley Farm
- WRENN ID
- haunted-gravel-claret
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Barnsley
- Constituency
- Penistone and Stocksbridge MP: Dr Marie Tidball (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 July 1986
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Barn at Softley Farm, Whams Road, Dunford
- OS grid reference
- SE 186 029
- Coordinates
- 53.52297, -1.7203
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The barn at Softley Farm is a large structure built in the 1870s or 1880s, with a slightly later addition. It is constructed from pitch-faced stone and features a stone slate roof. The barn has three bays by two, characterized by large round-arched openings that are separated by square piers, with two orders of plain voussoirs resting on simple imposts. The upper parts of some openings have been infilled with plain boarding, and the eaves overhang. At the rear, there is an additional bay that matches the original design and includes a single smaller opening, with a catslide roof over this addition. Inside, the barn contains three large queen-post trusses made of sawn softwood.
Local climate
Barn at Softley Farm sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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