Barn 50 Yards North of Manor Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the East Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 August 1988. Barn.
Barn 50 Yards North of Manor Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- mired-thatch-bistre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- Ely and East Cambridgeshire MP: Charlotte Cane (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 August 1988
- Type
- Barn
- OS grid reference
- TL 481 784
- Coordinates
- 52.38437, 0.17551
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This barn, located 50 yards north of Manor Farmhouse, dates from the 16th and 17th centuries. It is timber framed and weatherboarded, with a roof that was rebuilt in 1899, now featuring two pitches and covered in corrugated iron. The barn has approximately nine bays and two cartway openings on the north side.
Inside, only a few of the trusses are visible. One of the late medieval trusses shows paired bracing to the tie beams and single bracing from the arcade post to the arcade plate. There is also bracing from the wall posts to the arcade posts, which are halved over the aisle ties. The early date of this section of the barn is indicated by the paired bracing in the tie beams and the continuous bracing from the wall post to the arcade post. However, not enough of the truss or the rest of the barn was visible to determine the extent of the 16th-century part or if it was a rebuild of an earlier barn in an archaic style. The trusses at the west end of the barn are later and lack the paired tie beam bracing or arcade post bracing.
In 1744, William Cole noted that the farm had "one of the largest barns I ever saw, except the Bishop's barn at Ely," when the manor was rented to Dr. Conyers Middleton, a Woodwardian Professor of Theology at Cambridge University.
Local climate
Barn 50 Yards North of Manor Farmhouse 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 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% 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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