Tithe Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1988. Barn. 3 related planning applications.

Tithe Barn

WRENN ID
tangled-lime-ebony
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Babergh
Constituency
South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 January 1988
Type
Barn
Address
Tithe Barn, Lower Street, Sproughton, IP8 3AA
OS grid reference
TM 124 450
Coordinates
52.06309, 1.0976
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Tithe Barn is a barn dating from the 17th and 18th centuries. It is timber framed, weatherboarded, and has a brick plinth with a thatched roof that is half-hipped at the east end. The barn consists of 8 bays and features doorways on the south side, with midstreys opposite on the north side. Some of the timber used in the walls is reused. Inside, there are tie beams with straight braces and knees, and a two-tier butt purlin roof. The barn was restored by the parish in 1985 and is now used as a sports hall.

Local climate

Tithe Barn 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 67% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% 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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