Barn at Valley Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 November 1986. A Post-Medieval Agricultural. 1 related planning application.
Barn at Valley Farm
- WRENN ID
- scattered-turret-thunder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 November 1986
- Type
- Agricultural
- Period
- Post-Medieval
- Address
- Barn at Valley Farm, Hillborough Road, South Pickenham
- OS grid reference
- TF 850 031
- Coordinates
- 52.59449, 0.7304
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The barn at Valley Farm is a late 17th-century threshing barn that has been converted to house a grain drier. It is constructed of red brick and features a steeply pitched roof made of French corrugated pantiles. The south wall has 20th-century double doors that conceal the original waggon entrance. The barn has parapeted gables with continuous tumbling-in and honeycomb brick vents. There is a later opening for an extract fan in the west gable, along with two 20th-century ventilation louvres located in the roof at the west end. Inside, the roof structure includes tie beams with arch-braces on wall posts and corbels, as well as two tiers of staggered butt purlins.
Local climate
Barn at Valley Farm 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 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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