Barn, to East of Burgh Hall is a Grade II listed building in the East Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 December 1951. Barn.

Barn, to East of Burgh Hall

WRENN ID
ruined-mantel-lark
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Cambridgeshire
Constituency
Ely and East Cambridgeshire MP: Charlotte Cane (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
1 December 1951
Type
Barn
Address
Barn, to East of Burgh Hall, High Street, Swaffham Bulbeck
OS grid reference
TL 555 620
Coordinates
52.23439, 0.27671
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This barn, located to the east of Burgh Hall, dates from the late 16th century. It is timber-framed and weatherboarded, featuring a half-hipped thatched roof that is currently covered with corrugated iron. The structure consists of five bays and is aisled. Inside, the roof remains intact and is constructed using Queen post design, with curved wind bracing connecting the principal rafters to the side purlins. The tops of the arcade posts are jowled, and there is curved bracing from the posts to the tie beams, as well as from the wall posts to the aisle ties.

Local climate

Barn, to East of Burgh Hall 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 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% 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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