The Great Barn, at Park Farm, About Half Mile North East of Wimpole is a Grade II* listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. Barn.
The Great Barn, at Park Farm, About Half Mile North East of Wimpole
- WRENN ID
- guardian-courtyard-quill
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Barn
- OS grid reference
- TL 340 514
- Coordinates
- 52.14471, -0.04196
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Great Barn at Park Farm, located about half a mile northeast of Wimpole Hall, is a barn built around 1800 by Sir John Soane. It has been restored and features a timber frame with weatherboarding on a brick plinth. The roof is made of combed wheat reed and is half-hipped. The barn consists of eight bays, with two mid-streys on the south side. Inside, it has jowled heads on the posts, braced tiebeams, and a Queen post roof with bracing struts supporting the principal rafters. There is also straight wall bracing and some inserted timber. The barn is part of a planned group of farm buildings constructed for the Earl of Hardwicke and forms one side of the farmyard.
Local climate
The Great Barn, at Park Farm, About Half Mile North East of Wimpole 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 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% 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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