Barn at Bletsoe Castle Farm, Adjacent to Drive is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1987. Barn.
Barn at Bletsoe Castle Farm, Adjacent to Drive
- WRENN ID
- weathered-moulding-pine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1987
- Type
- Barn
- OS grid reference
- TL 024 583
- Coordinates
- 52.21374, -0.50157
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The barn at Bletsoe Castle Farm, located adjacent to the drive, is a threshing barn that dates back to the 17th or 18th century. It features walls made of limestone rubble and an old clay tile roof. The barn consists of four bays and has a large central entrance on the north side. Each gable end is adorned with three narrow lancet windows that are deeply splayed on the inside. Additionally, there are three similar windows on each side elevation. The roof structure is a double purlin design.
Local climate
Barn at Bletsoe Castle Farm, Adjacent to Drive sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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