Barn at Old Hall Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 April 1990. Barn.
Barn at Old Hall Farm
- WRENN ID
- half-window-acorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 April 1990
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Barn at Old Hall Farm, Alpheton
- OS grid reference
- TL 873 504
- Coordinates
- 52.12074, 0.73579
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The barn at Old Hall Farm is a Grade II listed structure. It originated in the 13th century as the south barn, which was later extended in the 16th century, while the north-west barn was added in the 18th century. The roofs were removed in the 20th century. The building features weatherboard cladding over a timber frame, with a gambrel corrugated iron roof on the south barn and a gabled corrugated iron roof on the north-west barn. The south barn consists of eight aisled bays with two threshing floors, while the north-west barn, which is at right angles to the south barn, has six bays and a central threshing floor. There are plank double doors leading to two gabled porches on the south side, and a lean-to roof over the east porch of the north-west barn, which is adjacent to a 19th-century outshut on the south.
Inside, the north-west barn features vertical studding with mid rails and jowled storey posts that include bracing and 19th-century knee braces tied to the beams. The south barn has 16th-century vertical studding with mid rails and curved wall bracing at the gable ends, along with jowled 16th-century aisle posts that have cranked and arched bracing to the tie beams and arcade plates. The west end of the south barn contains three 13th-century bays with unjowled aisle posts and lateral bracing to the arcade plates, all made with lighter timber. The assembly of the aisles is reversed.
Local climate
Barn at Old Hall Farm 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% 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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