Barn to South East of Abbey Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 June 1986. Barn.
Barn to South East of Abbey Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- plain-steeple-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 June 1986
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Barn to South East of Abbey Farmhouse, Duxford Road, Ickleton
- OS grid reference
- TL 489 436
- Coordinates
- 52.07086, 0.17136
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This barn, located to the southeast of Abbey Farmhouse, dates from the late 16th century or early 17th century, with repairs and rebuilding from the 19th century, as indicated by a plaque in the gable dated 1846. The structure is timber-framed and weatherboarded, featuring a high brick plinth and gable walls, topped with a corrugated iron roof. It consists of four bays and was originally longer. The barn includes braced tie beams and posts, with windbraces connecting the principal rafters to the collar in each roof bay. The main entrances are located in the gable.
Local climate
Barn to South East of Abbey Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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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