Barn to West of Downham Lodge Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. A Mid C18 Threshing barn.
Barn to West of Downham Lodge Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- sharp-moulding-hawk
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- South Norfolk MP: Ben Goldsborough (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Threshing barn
- Address
- Barn to West of Downham Lodge Farmhouse, Barnham Broom Road, Wymondham
- OS grid reference
- TG 101 050
- Coordinates
- 52.60274, 1.10196
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building is a former threshing barn dating from the mid-18th century, located to the west of Downham Lodge Farmhouse. It features a weatherboarded timber frame with a brick plinth and brick ends at the bases of the gables, topped by a pantile roof. The barn consists of five bays and has opposing cart entrances in the central bay. The tall panel framing includes tension bracing from the sole plates to the principal posts. The roof structure is made up of arch-braced tie beams with lap jointed collars, along with intermediate sets of principal rafters that have collars but no tie beams. It also has two tiers of wedge-tenoned butt purlins and a ridge piece. The principal posts are distinguished by carefully shaped jowls. This barn is a fine example of a five-bay threshing barn that has seen little alteration and is part of a cohesive farmstead group with Downham Lodge Farmhouse and the granary to the south.
Local climate
Barn to West of Downham Lodge Farmhouse 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 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% 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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