Barn Immediately West South West of Primrose Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 April 1993. Barn.
Barn Immediately West South West of Primrose Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- last-porch-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 April 1993
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Barn Immediately West South West of Primrose Farmhouse, Primrose Lane, South Lopham
- OS grid reference
- TM 041 815
- Coordinates
- 52.39415, 0.99948
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a barn located immediately west-southwest of Primrose Farmhouse, dating from the late 17th century. It features a plastered timber-frame construction set on a brick plinth, topped with a thatched roof that has gable ends. There is a pantile roof outshut that connects to an adjoining stable.
The barn has a three-bay layout with opposing cart entrances at the front and back of the central bay. On the left (southwest) end, there is a late 19th-century outshut, while a 19th-century stable is positioned at the front of the right end. The exterior includes a full-height cart entrance at the center, which has plank double doors. The left side is weatherboarded, while the right side is plastered, with a single-storey stable range that projects at right angles. The lean-to outshut on the left end has weatherboarded walls. The rear (northwest) side is plastered and features another cart entrance at the center with plank double doors and weatherboarding above.
Inside, the frame is complete with tall close-studding and no mid rail, long straight tension braces, and intact wall and sole plates. There are curved braces to the tie-beams, tenoned collars, and staggered tenoned purlins supporting the principal rafters. The common rafters are intact, with straight wind-braces and a ridgeboard.
Local climate
Barn Immediately West South West of Primrose Farmhouse 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 89% 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 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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