Barn C.40m West of Gowthorpe Manor House Q.V. 6/108 is a Grade II* listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 October 1951. Barn.

Barn C.40m West of Gowthorpe Manor House Q.V. 6/108

WRENN ID
pale-lantern-umber
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
South Norfolk
Constituency
South Norfolk MP: Ben Goldsborough (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 October 1951
Type
Barn
Address
Barn C.40m West of Gowthorpe Manor House Q.V. 6/108, Swardeston
OS grid reference
TG 207 023
Coordinates
52.57411, 1.25686
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a barn located approximately 40 meters west of Gowthorpe Manor House, dating from the early 17th century. It is constructed of brick and covered with pantiles. The barn features five steads and crowstepped gables, with a roof that has been retiled. The plinth is made in Flemish bond with a rounded cap, and there is a large moulded platband. The lower walls are in English bond, while the upper walls are in Flemish bond.

The principal facade faces south and has large doors leading to the fourth stead. To the right of these doors, below the platband, are openings with chamfered brick surrounds. The first stead has two openings, each with two renewed brick mullions. The second stead contains vertical slits in blocked openings, and the third stead has a rectangular opening with five brick mullions, some of which have been renewed. Above the platband, there is a blocked opening and a shuttered loft opening with a segmental head. To the right of the doors, there is another blocked opening with a vertical slit.

The right return features a platband and a rectangular opening to the gable with seven brick mullions, some renewed, along with a small blocked square opening above. The left return also has a platband and is constructed in Flemish bond throughout. Any later lean-to additions have been removed, and there is a rectangular opening to the gable with a chamfered brick surround and six brick mullions, some renewed. A square hood mould has been removed.

At the rear, there is an additional lean-to to the northwest and an open cartshed lean-to to the northeast. There is an opposing doorway with brick walls under a lean-to roof. The plinth at the rear is in English bond, and to the right, there are two rectangular openings with chamfered brick surrounds, four brick mullions, and transoms. To the left, there are two similar openings with six mullions and transoms, with the right one having two lights blocked.

Inside, the barn features 18th-century roof ties with braced wall posts and a three-tier roof with collars, with the second tier being braced.

Local climate

Barn C.40m West of Gowthorpe Manor House Q.V. 6/108 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 88% 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 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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