Little Manson Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 June 1989. Barn. 1 related planning application.
Little Manson Barn
- WRENN ID
- buried-rampart-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Constituency
- Hereford and South Herefordshire MP: Jesse Norman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 June 1989
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Little Manson Barn, Manson Lane, Llanrothal, NP25 5RD
- OS grid reference
- SO 498 160
- Coordinates
- 51.84094, -2.72989
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Little Manson Barn is an 18th-century barn constructed from thin coursed sandstone rubble with a pantile roof, part of which is covered with corrugated iron. The barn is rectangular and consists of three bays, featuring central cart doors on either side. Each of the four walls has three tiers of triangular ventilators. The west gable wall includes a rectangular loading door and a triangular vent, which may have served as an owl hole at the apex. On the south side, there is a blocked square window with a timber lintel to the right of the cart door, along with a slit vent further to the right. Although it is not a bank barn, the ground slopes to the south, making the south wall significantly higher than the north wall. There is a stub of a possible yard wall that extends the south wall to the east and is part of the original structure.
Inside, the barn features two queen strut trusses that are halved and pegged at the apex, displaying carpenter's marks. The roof has a through purlin design with a light diagonally set ridge. The presence of empty mortices for clasped purlins suggests that the main trusses were reused from a 17th-century building, although the current roof is original to this barn.
This barn is a well-preserved example of a Herefordshire out barn.
Local climate
Little Manson Barn receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings