Barn Approximately 30 Metres South West of Avenue Farm Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. Barn. 1 related planning application.

Barn Approximately 30 Metres South West of Avenue Farm Cottages

WRENN ID
peeling-cinder-bittern
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Norfolk
Constituency
South Norfolk MP: Ben Goldsborough (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Barn
OS grid reference
TG 299 020
Coordinates
52.56729, 1.39125
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a 17th-century barn located approximately 30 meters southwest of Avenue Farm Cottages. It features a timber frame that is clad in corrugated steel and asbestos sheeting, with a brick gable on the south side. The barn has a steeply-pitched roof also covered in asbestos sheeting. It consists of four structural bays, with studwork and diagonal bracing, and has tongued ogee bases to the jowls. There is a double door opening on the east side and a lean-to porch with lower double door openings on the west side. The principal rafters are supported by collars and two tiers of butt purlins, and there is diagonal wind bracing in the roof. The parapeted brick gable on the south has two window openings. Additionally, there are later lean-tos on the east and west sides.

Local climate

Barn Approximately 30 Metres South West of Avenue Farm Cottages 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 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% 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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