Barn to North West of Ditton Hall is a Grade II* listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 June 1977. A Medieval Barn.
Barn to North West of Ditton Hall
- WRENN ID
- waning-keystone-jackdaw
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 June 1977
- Type
- Barn
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Barn to North West of Ditton Hall, High Street, Fen Ditton, CB5 8ST
- OS grid reference
- TL 481 603
- Coordinates
- 52.22134, 0.16777
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The barn located to the northwest of Ditton Hall dates from the late 15th century or early 16th century. It is constructed with a timber frame and weatherboarding, raised above ground level on limestone rubble and Barnack limestone foundations, topped with plain tile roofs. The barn has two storeys and features a jettied design to the north, with a late gabled porch entrance on the east side. It consists of three bays, with upper and lower rooms spanning two bays, and a single bayed room to the south. The barn has been restored, retaining original diamond mullioned windows with shutter grooves on both floors. The ground floor walls are made of plank and muntin construction, while the first floor features rebated planks. Inside, there is a crown post roof. The barn may have originally served as a merchants' trading hall and warehouse and was initially unheated.
Local climate
Barn to North West of Ditton Hall 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 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% 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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