Barn 20 Metres North East of Hardwick Hall is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 August 1995. Barn.
Barn 20 Metres North East of Hardwick Hall
- WRENN ID
- stranded-vestry-frost
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- South Norfolk MP: Ben Goldsborough (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 August 1995
- Type
- Barn
- OS grid reference
- TM 218 897
- Coordinates
- 52.46103, 1.26463
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a storage barn located 20 metres north-east of Hardwick Hall, dating from the late 16th century. It was converted into a threshing barn in the early 19th century and later adapted for grain drying in the late 20th century. The barn features a weatherboarded timber frame resting on a plinth made of brick and flint, with some clay lump, and has a pantiled roof. It is a single storey structure.
The north front has double timber doors positioned to the right of centre, with a 20th-century pedestrian door to the left. The south front includes a clay lump outshut beneath a catslide roof. Inside, the barn has a close-studded timber frame with jowled principal studs. The tie beams are supported by arched braces flanking the cart entrance, with one brace replaced by a knuckle brace. The roof structure includes principals supported on queen struts, collars, curved windbracing, and two tiers of purlins, with the upper tier clasped.
Local climate
Barn 20 Metres North East of Hardwick Hall sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% 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 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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