Barn approximately 1.5 metres to north-east of Lower Wat Ing is a Grade II listed building in the Calderdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 July 1988. Barn.

Barn approximately 1.5 metres to north-east of Lower Wat Ing

WRENN ID
patient-iron-auburn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Calderdale
Constituency
Calder Valley MP: Josh Fenton-Glynn (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 July 1988
Type
Barn
OS grid reference
SE 073 231
Coordinates
53.70448, -1.89023
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a 17th-century barn located approximately 1.5 metres to the north-east of Lower Wat Ing in Sowerby Bridge, Norland. The barn is constructed of coursed squared stone and rubble, topped with a stone slate roof. It features five bays with a front aisle.

On the north-east front, there is a brick outshut extension on the left, which is not of interest, that conceals a central recessed cart entry. This entry has a socketed wood lintel and is flanked by shallow Tudor-arched doorways leading into the aisles. The left aisle includes a chamfered light, while the right aisle contains one single and one tripled round-arched vent. The gable ends have shaped kneelers and coping.

At the rear, the right bay is made of rubble. There is a central chamfered quoined basket-arched doorway with a datestone above that reads '1663 IMM', which may have been reused from a different stone. To the left of this doorway is a chamfered arched vent. On the right return, there is a chamfered quoined Tudor-arched doorway on the left, along with arched vents and a chamfered owl hole in the gable.

Inside, the barn features five trusses with posts braced to the arcade plate and tie beams. Braces extend from the front wall to the tie beams, which are supported on corbels. The structure includes a queen-strut, a king-post, and two open trusses with trenched purlins and old rafters. The two outer tie beams have mortices for studs, indicating their original use in closing trusses. The arcade plate also has mortices for studs, suggesting it was originally used as a wall plate. These details, along with two sets of carpenter's marks on the trusses, indicate that the barn is a rebuilding of a timber-framed structure, which the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments report suggests was originally at least seven bays and single-aisled.

Local climate

Barn approximately 1.5 metres to north-east of Lower Wat Ing sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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