Barn at Olmstead Hall Farm is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 April 1986. Barn.
Barn at Olmstead Hall Farm
- WRENN ID
- moated-bonework-ebony
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 April 1986
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Barn at Olmstead Hall Farm, Olmstead Green, Castle Camps
- OS grid reference
- TL 626 406
- Coordinates
- 52.04047, 0.36947
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The barn at Olmstead Hall Farm is a 17th-century structure. It is timber framed and covered with weatherboarding, and it was originally thatched, standing on a brick plinth. The barn features an aisle on the west side and has two bays on the east side. The center bay on the east has a gabled midstrey. Curved wind braces support the purlins of the midstrey roof.
Local climate
Barn at Olmstead Hall Farm 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 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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