Barn at Home Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Harborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1985. Barn.
Barn at Home Farm
- WRENN ID
- unlit-groin-swallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Harborough
- Constituency
- Rutland and Stamford MP: Alicia Kearns (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 April 1985
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Barn at Home Farm, Blaston
- OS grid reference
- SP 807 956
- Coordinates
- 52.5524, -0.81088
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The barn at Home Farm is an 18th-century structure, dated 1832. It is built from coursed rubble stone, squared stone, and red brick, featuring a chequer pattern with black brick in parts. The roof is covered with corrugated iron over thatch. This long barn is mainly one storey high. The gable facing the front has a large central doorway that has been blocked with red and black brick in a chequer pattern, along with a small boarded window above it. There is a red brick gable with a tablet inscribed 'I.H.D. 1832'. On the right side, there are doors. The roof consists of single purlin roof tie-beam trusses with clasped principals and collars where they are visible.
Local climate
Barn at Home Farm receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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