Barn Approximately 15 Metres North West of the Fields is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 May 1986. Barn.
Barn Approximately 15 Metres North West of the Fields
- WRENN ID
- muted-quoin-finch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- North Shropshire MP: Helen Morgan (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 May 1986
- Type
- Barn
- OS grid reference
- SJ 307 252
- Coordinates
- 52.82002, -3.02886
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This barn, located approximately 15 meters north-west of The Fields, dates from the early to mid-19th century and incorporates significant remains of a 14th or 15th-century open-hall house. The barn is oriented on an east-west axis and features a mix of regularly coursed limestone rubble, red brick, and weatherboarded construction, topped with a hipped slate roof at the west end.
Inside, there are two truncated base cruck trusses that likely represent the solar or service bay of the original open hall. Both trusses are chamfered and feature arch braces, although the northern truss is missing its braces. These trusses support a cambered tie beam, which has a beam running north-south, supported by a post and a carved bracket on the southern truss. Much of the roof structure, possibly of crown-post type, has been lost. The lower face of the tie beam on the southern truss has eight mortice holes indicating the positions of the joists from the former floored bay. Additionally, there are more mortice holes on the bottom face that mark where a close-studded or plank and muntin screen once stood.
To the left and right of the northern cruck truss are square-headed doorways with reverse ogee arches, which provided access from the hall into the solar or service bay. A cruck blade, repurposed to support a loft, is located at right angles to the east of the northern truss.
Local climate
Barn Approximately 15 Metres North West of the Fields receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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