Lower Barn is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 2001. Stable. 4 related planning applications.

Lower Barn

WRENN ID
plain-stronghold-furze
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Norfolk
Constituency
South Norfolk MP: Ben Goldsborough (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 March 2001
Type
Stable
Address
Lower Barn, Brooke Road, Mundham
OS grid reference
TM 326 979
Coordinates
52.52972, 1.42792
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Lower Barn is a stable built in the mid-17th century, likely in two phases. It is constructed of brick in English bond and features a pantile roof. The gables are coped with simple brick pinnacles at the top, and the west end has well-preserved moulded brick kneeler corbels. The building has a rectangular plan oriented east-west, with an entrance at the rear in the farmyard to the north. It is two storeys high and contains two ground floor rooms, including a smaller tack room at the east end. The yard-facing side has two doorways and window openings on both floors, with the upper window on the right retaining its original frame and wooden mullions beneath a wooden lintel, while the left window is likely similar. The road-facing side features a loft door and other blocked openings.

Inside, there are bridging beams, with the one in the tack room having chamfer stops, along with timber mangers. The roof consists of a single set of butt purlins, collars, straight wind bracing, and coupled rafters, with tie beams only at the gable ends and center. This building is a rare example of a purpose-built stable from this period.

Local climate

Lower Barn 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 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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