Barn to East South East of the Gables Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 November 1982. Barn.
Barn to East South East of the Gables Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- iron-spire-burdock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Huntingdonshire
- Constituency
- St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire MP: Ian Sollom (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1982
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Barn to East South East of the Gables Farmhouse, Hilton Road, Fenstanton
- OS grid reference
- TL 313 682
- Coordinates
- 52.2965, -0.07592
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a 17th-century single-aisled barn located to the east-south-east of The Gables Farmhouse on Hilton Road in Fenstanton. The barn is constructed of soft red brick and features a corrugated iron roof. It has a dentil brick eaves cornice and a parapet gable on the right side, with a repaired brick gable on the left. The structure consists of three bays, with a double, flat-arched entry in the central bay facing north-west. Inside, there are aisle posts with pairs of straight braces supporting the tie beams, and jacklegs resting on moulded wooden corbels. The barn has a later 18th-century king post roof with seven bays and double butt purlins.
Local climate
Barn to East South East of the Gables 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 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% 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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