The Great Barn is a Grade II* listed building in the North Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1983. A Georgian Barn.

The Great Barn

WRENN ID
other-landing-vermeil
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
North Norfolk
Constituency
North Norfolk MP: Steff Aquarone (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 May 1983
Type
Barn
Period
Georgian
Address
The Great Barn, Great Barn Road, Holkham
OS grid reference
TF 890 414
Coordinates
52.93673, 0.81095
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Great Barn is a five-stead threshing barn built around 1790 by Samuel Wyatt, designed in a simple neo-classical style. It is constructed from gault brick and features slate roofs. The barn has a brick dentil eaves course and pedimented gables. On the east and west sides, there are four pedimented porches that indicate the locations of the two threshing floors. The barn includes large segmental-headed door openings with plain brick bands at the impost level. Surrounding the barn are one-storey lean-to workshops and stores, which have hipped roofs. High-level lunettes are present, some featuring honeycomb brick vents, along with circular brick ventilation openings in the gable pediments of the main roof.

Local climate

The Great Barn receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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