Barn and Attached Stable and Shelter Shed to East of Speedsdairy Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 June 1989. Barn.
Barn and Attached Stable and Shelter Shed to East of Speedsdairy Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- empty-spindle-myrtle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 June 1989
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Barn and Attached Stable and Shelter Shed to East of Speedsdairy Farmhouse, Shefford Road, Campton and Chicksands
- OS grid reference
- TL 109 386
- Coordinates
- 52.03552, -0.38417
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a barn, along with an attached stable and shelter shed, located to the east of Speedsdairy Farmhouse. It dates from the mid-18th century, incorporating some earlier work. The barn features weatherboard cladding over a timber frame, set on a tall brick plinth, and has a gabled corrugated iron roof. It has a five-bay plan with a central threshing floor and a gabled midstrey at the rear, which has 20th-century doors.
Inside, the barn showcases an exposed timber frame with diagonal wall bracing, and diagonal bracing from jowled wall posts to tie beams. The roof structure includes collar-strut construction with side struts, clasped purlins to the collars, and a lower tier of butt purlins.
There is also an early 19th-century L-plan shelter shed at the rear, constructed of weatherboard over a timber frame with a later pantile roof. Its interior features jowled posts braced to tie beams and wall plates, along with side struts to clasped purlins.
The stable at the front dates from the mid-18th century and is built of brick with a gabled corrugated asbestos roof. It is a single storey with a two-window range, featuring segmental brick arches over the door and flanking windows. Inside, it has 18th-century chamfered beams and late 19th-century stalls, mangers, and hay-racks. The range attached to the south of the barn is not of special architectural or historic interest.
Local climate
Barn and Attached Stable and Shelter Shed to East of Speedsdairy Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% 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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