Somerville Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Malvern Hills local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 April 1966. Barn, house. 1 related planning application.
Somerville Barn
- WRENN ID
- sharp-garret-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Malvern Hills
- Constituency
- West Worcestershire MP: Dame Harriett Baldwin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 April 1966
- Type
- Barn, house
- Address
- Somerville Barn, the Square, Bayton, DY14 9LL
- OS grid reference
- SO 692 732
- Coordinates
- 52.35665, -2.45246
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Somerville Barn is a 17th-century barn that has been converted into a house. It was restored in the late 20th century and features a timber-framed structure with rendered infill on a rubble base and a plain tiled roof. The barn is likely composed of six framed bays aligned north to south and includes a large central rubble chimney with a brick stack. It is a single storey with an attic.
The framing consists of three panels from the sill to the wall-plate, with a collar and tie-beam truss supported by two struts at the north gable end. The east front elevation has five two-light casement windows, three skylights, and a central lean-to porch supported by timber posts, which features a multi-paned door. There is also a lean-to porch to the right with a glazed door and a side light. The gable ends have attic lights.
Inside, the barn retains a significant portion of its roof structure and cross-frames. The inserted chimney has back-to-back fireplaces. There are 20th-century brick additions to the south end bay. Somerville Barn is part of a group of buildings surrounding The Square.
Local climate
Somerville Barn receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2018
- 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
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