Barn About 80 Metres East of Shawell Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Harborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1992. Barn.

Barn About 80 Metres East of Shawell Hall

WRENN ID
rooted-soffit-equinox
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Harborough
Constituency
South Leicestershire MP: Alberto Costa (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 June 1992
Type
Barn
OS grid reference
SP 542 796
Coordinates
52.41244, -1.20352
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a barn located about 80 metres east of Shawell Hall, likely built in the 17th century, with some walls rebuilt in the 19th century. The barn features Flemish bond brickwork, with earlier Flemish garden wall bond brick in the south gable wall and east wall. It has a concrete tile roof with gabled ends. The barn is designed in a four-bay layout with opposing cart entrances in the southern bay and a 19th-century outshuton on the east side.

The west elevation includes a full-height cart entrance to the right of the centre, featuring sliding double doors, and a low farm building attached on the left. The east elevation has a full-height cart entrance to the left of the centre and a later lean-to outbuilding on the right, which has a slate roof that is partly covered in corrugated iron sheets.

Inside, the barn boasts a fine 17th-century four-bay roof made of heavy scantling. It consists of three tie-beam queen strut trusses with mortice and tenoned collars, clasped purlins, diminished principals with jowled apexes, ogee wind-braces, and common rafters without a ridgepiece. There are mortices on the soffits of the tie-beam for braces, and a timber wall-plate is present.

Local climate

Barn About 80 Metres East of Shawell Hall receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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