Melton Paddocks Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1983. Barn. 1 related planning application.

Melton Paddocks Barn

WRENN ID
silent-transept-larch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Breckland
Constituency
South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 March 1983
Type
Barn
Address
Melton Paddocks Barn, Brettenham, IP24 2RZ
OS grid reference
TL 933 820
Coordinates
52.4023, 0.84076
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Melton Paddocks Barn is an early 18th-century barn constructed with a timber frame, featuring weatherboarding and a gabled pantile roof. It has a brick plinth and a central door with a glazed overlight, flanked by two rectangular vertical slat windows, which are also glazed over.

Inside, the barn has close-studded posts with arch-braced tie beams. There is tension bracing from the principal posts to the wall plate, split principal rafters with clasped purlins above and butt purlins below, and collar beams. Braces extend from the ties to the butt purlins, although most of the timbers have been renewed.

Local climate

Melton Paddocks Barn sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% 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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