Barn at Padney Hill Farm is a Grade II listed building in the East Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 November 1983. Barn.

Barn at Padney Hill Farm

WRENN ID
lesser-plaster-ridge
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Cambridgeshire
Constituency
Ely and East Cambridgeshire MP: Charlotte Cane (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 November 1983
Type
Barn
Address
Barn at Padney Hill Farm, Padney Road, Wicken
OS grid reference
TL 551 742
Coordinates
52.34429, 0.27644
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The barn at Padney Hill Farm is a 17th-century aisled barn consisting of three bays. It features a timber frame that is weatherboarded, and it has a half-hipped roof that was originally thatched but is now covered with corrugated iron. The framing includes long straight bracing extending from the posts to the tie beams.

Local climate

Barn at Padney Hill Farm sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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