Barn About 20 Yards West of Skirgen's Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Wychavon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 June 1985. A C17 Barn.
Barn About 20 Yards West of Skirgen's Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- second-spandrel-pigeon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wychavon
- Constituency
- Redditch MP: Chris Bloore (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 June 1985
- Type
- Barn
- OS grid reference
- SO 978 622
- Coordinates
- 52.25802, -2.03238
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This barn, located about 20 yards west of Skirgen's Farmhouse, dates back to the 17th century and has been altered in the mid-19th century. It features a timber frame with brick infill set on a brick plinth, with some sections of brick replacement walling and part of the structure weatherboarded. The roof is plain tiled. The barn consists of four framed bays arranged east to west, with a wagon bay second from the east gable that has opposed cart entries with double doors.
The framing includes three rows of panels extending from the sill to the wall plate, with long straight braces in the lower corners. The end trusses are not visible from the outside. On the north front elevation, there are doorways to the left and right of the cart entrance; the left door features a cambered head and an open panel above it.
Inside, the east end has a king-post truss, while the west end has a collar and tie-beam truss with raking struts. There is also an intermediate truncated collar and tie-beam truss with struts, along with two tiers of renewed purlins and a boarded ridge. The barn is floored except for the wagon bay. A single-storey extension from the 19th century is attached to the east gable end but is not included in the listing.
Local climate
Barn About 20 Yards West of Skirgen's Farmhouse receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% 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.
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