Barn at Rectory Farm is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 October 1985. Barn.

Barn at Rectory Farm

WRENN ID
long-plaster-twilight
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Cambridgeshire
Constituency
South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 October 1985
Type
Barn
Address
Barn at Rectory Farm, High Street, Little Eversden
OS grid reference
TL 373 533
Coordinates
52.1613, 0.0063
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The barn at Rectory Farm is a structure dating from the 17th to 18th century. It is timber framed and weatherboarded, sitting on a clunch plinth, with a long straw thatch roof that is half hipped. The barn features five bays, with a cartway opening on the east side and a lean-to on the opposite wall. Inside, there is a thrashing floor at the south end, along with braced tie beams and Queen strut roof trusses.

Local climate

Barn at Rectory Farm 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 85% 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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