Village Farmhouse Barn is a Grade II listed building in the King0s Lynn and West Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1953. Barn.

Village Farmhouse Barn

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
King0s Lynn and West Norfolk
Constituency
North West Norfolk MP: James Wild (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 June 1953
Type
Barn
Address
Village Farmhouse Barn, Houghton, King's Lynn and West Norfolk
OS grid reference
TF 792 276
Coordinates
52.81682, 0.65829
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Village Farmhouse Barn is a barn from the second half of the 18th century, constructed of English bond red brick with a red pantiled roof. It consists of two threshing barns built end to end, with outshuts on the north and south sides. There are two cart entrances on the north side and originally two on the south, all featuring wooden lintels and brick arches. The structure has brick eaves cornices and coped gables.

Inside, the barn has a ten-bay layout with two central semi-circular arched openings on the north and south sides leading to the outshuts, which are now filled in. The roof is also ten bays wide, supported by internal brick pilasters with simple stone imposts, which hold wall posts, struts, tie beams, butt-purlins, and collars. The south outshut includes arched wall niches for the tie-beams of a lean-to roof. Additionally, the southeast cart opening has been replaced with a wider opening from the 20th century. The barn's layout resembles a block plan found in Isaac Ware's Plans for Houghton, published in 1735 and again in 1750.

Local climate

Village Farmhouse Barn receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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