Cruck Barn to the North-West of Beech Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Amber Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 November 1979. A C17 Barn.
Cruck Barn to the North-West of Beech Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- haunted-rubblework-blackthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Amber Valley
- Constituency
- Derbyshire Dales MP: John Whitby (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 November 1979
- Type
- Barn
- OS grid reference
- SK 350 575
- Coordinates
- 53.11367, -1.47837
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a 17th-century cruck barn located to the north-west of Beech Farmhouse. It is constructed from coursed rubble gritstone with quoins at the north end and features a plain tiled roof with stone-slated eaves. The barn is a single storey with three bays, including a single doorway at the south end and a blocked former doorway just north of the existing opening, which has a fixed light window.
Inside, there are three cruck trusses, with the blades on the east side now embedded in the stone walls. The trusses have collars and yokes that support single butt purlins on the backs of the crucks, with two trusses featuring added bearer timbers for additional support. Thin, slightly curved wind braces are present on one side of each of two trusses. The cruck blades have halvings for tie beams or spurs, which are now missing, but modern softwood spurs and sawn rafters have been added. An opening in the north gable is supported by a rough relieving arch above a plain timber lintel, and there are plain planked doors.
Local climate
Cruck Barn to the North-West of Beech Farmhouse receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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