Barn at Top Farm is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 August 1984. Barn. 1 related planning application.
Barn at Top Farm
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 August 1984
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Barn at Top Farm, Town Street, Newton, CB22 7PG
- OS grid reference
- TL 438 493
- Coordinates
- 52.12408, 0.0995
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The barn at Top Farm dates from the late 17th century. It is constructed of dressed clunch on a red brick plinth, with red brick upper courses at the eaves height and on the gable ends. The roof is half-hipped and covered with plain tiles, featuring a dentil eaves cornice similar to that of the Queens Head Public House on Fowlmere Road in Newton. The barn has five bays and includes a mid-strey on the south side, along with a large doorway on the north side. The mid-strey is also late 17th century, made of dressed clunch and red brick. Inside, the queen post roof has arched bracing between the arcade posts and tie beams, along with a double row of staggered butt purlins.
Local climate
Barn at Top Farm 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 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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