Barn at Sowells Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Great Yarmouth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 December 1987. Barn.
Barn at Sowells Farm
- WRENN ID
- stark-frieze-thunder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Great Yarmouth
- Constituency
- Great Yarmouth MP: Rupert Lowe (RB)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 December 1987
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Barn at Sowells Farm, Back Lane, Rollesby
- OS grid reference
- TG 451 162
- Coordinates
- 52.68805, 1.62604
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a barn and stables located at Sowell's Farm, dating from the early 18th century. It is constructed of brick and has a thatched roof. The east side features stables and a hay loft on the left, with a carriage house in the center. The barn is attached to the north and includes a transept pedestrian entrance beneath a catslide roof. To the right, there is a pantiled outshut. The roof is supported by tie beams on arched braces that drop to wall posts, with queen struts rising to the lower of two tiers of butt purlins and collars. Sowell's Farmhouse is not listed.
Local climate
Barn at Sowells Farm receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2022
- No related consent applications matched
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