Barn 40 Metres North West of Abbey Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1984. Barn.
Barn 40 Metres North West of Abbey Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- dusted-porch-dawn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- Mid Norfolk MP: George Freeman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1984
- Type
- Barn
- OS grid reference
- TM 070 925
- Coordinates
- 52.49175, 1.04861
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This barn, located 40 meters north-west of Abbey Farmhouse, dates from the mid-17th century. It features a timber frame with wattle and daub infill, along with some brick elements. The exterior is weatherboarded and topped with a gabled pantile roof. The barn has central full-height double wagon doors and a brick plinth. Inside, it has a close studded structure, with tie beams supported by short arched braces. There are struts to the principals, collars with upper clasped purlins, and lower butt purlins, as well as some windbracing present.
Local climate
Barn 40 Metres North West of Abbey Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% 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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