Barn North-East of Yew Tree Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1981. Barn.

Barn North-East of Yew Tree Farmhouse

WRENN ID
quiet-glass-stoat
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Norfolk
Constituency
South Norfolk MP: Ben Goldsborough (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 June 1981
Type
Barn
Address
Barn North-East of Yew Tree Farmhouse, Low Road, Forncett
OS grid reference
TM 167 946
Coordinates
52.50659, 1.19248
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a 17th or 18th century timber-framed barn located north-east of Yew Tree Farmhouse on Forncett Low Road. The barn is weatherboarded and features a steep gable-ended roof covered in corrugated iron. There is a lean-to on the south side and a projecting gabled wing on the north side made of clay lump, which includes a wagon entrance.

Local climate

Barn North-East of Yew Tree Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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