Barn at Lower Knuck is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1985. Barn.
Barn at Lower Knuck
- WRENN ID
- lunar-bailey-briar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 June 1985
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Barn at Lower Knuck, Mainstone
- OS grid reference
- SO 269 870
- Coordinates
- 52.47625, -3.07658
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a 17th-century barn located at Lower Knuck. It features a weatherboarded timber frame set on a plinth made of coursed limestone rubble, topped with a thatched roof that has corrugated iron cladding and is hipped to the west. The barn consists of four and a half framed bays arranged in an east-west direction. The framing includes square panels, with two panels situated between the sole plate and the wall plate. There is a central door on the north side and three doors on the south side. The structure is supported by collar and tie-beam trusses that include queen struts.
Local climate
Barn at Lower Knuck receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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