Barn House is a Grade II listed building in the Wychavon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 July 1959. House.
Barn House
- WRENN ID
- hidden-paling-amber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wychavon
- Constituency
- Droitwich and Evesham MP: Nigel Huddleston (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 July 1959
- Type
- House
- Address
- Barn House, 152, High Street, Broadway
- OS grid reference
- SP 103 376
- Coordinates
- 52.03693, -1.85027
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Barn House is a house built in 1703, extended around 1908 by A N Prentice, and later by Guy Pemberton. It is constructed from limestone ashlar and snecked rubble, topped with a stone slate roof. The building has two storeys with an attic and originally consists of three bays, featuring a drip course and 2-light rebated and chamfered mullioned windows. The three hipped dormers are adorned with ball finials. The central door has a cyma-moulded surround, and above it is a plaque inscribed "HBW 1703" along with a Phoenix fire insurance plaque. The gables are coped with chimneys, and each side has a slightly lower bay added by Prentice. The first-floor windows are mostly within the gables, with four lights, except for the left-hand window, which has three lights. The right-hand gable is coped and features a weathervane.
To the right, there is a single-storey canted bay that connects the main house to a former barn, added by Pemberton. This bay has a 3-light mullioned window flanked by oval windows and a door on the left with a cyma surround. The barn's gable is half-hipped and includes a window with five Tudor-arched lights and two transoms. At the rear of the house, the former barn doorway in the west wall has been filled with a bay window that has curved sides, topped by a gable with a lunette.
Inside, both ground floor rooms of the original house feature chamfered spine beams, with the left room showcasing exposed common joists. The staircase has a closed string and turned balusters. The former barn includes a moulded stone fireplace with a canted head, is open to the roof, and has tie-beam trusses with collars and struts, some of which have been partly renewed in softwood.
Local climate
Barn House receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% 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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