Barn to Rear of Number 79 is a Grade II listed building in the East Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 January 1984. Barn.
Barn to Rear of Number 79
- WRENN ID
- eternal-chimney-mint
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- Ely and East Cambridgeshire MP: Charlotte Cane (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 January 1984
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Barn to Rear of Number 79, North Street, Burwell
- OS grid reference
- TL 586 678
- Coordinates
- 52.2856, 0.32477
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This mid 19th-century corn barn is located to the rear of Number 79 on North Street in Burwell. It is constructed of painted clunch stone with brick quoins and decorative brick dressings, featuring a dentil brick eaves cornice. The barn has a half hipped, slated king post roof that spans five bays. At the rear, there is a central storage outshut. The east-facing side has full height boarded doors, along with ventilation slits and two gable owl holes. This barn is associated with 19th-century river trade and is situated with access to Burwell Lode.
Local climate
Barn to Rear of Number 79 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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