Place Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 July 1980. Barn.

Place Barn

WRENN ID
rough-keystone-vermeil
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Babergh
Constituency
South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 July 1980
Type
Barn
Address
Place Barn, Groton
OS grid reference
TL 959 419
Coordinates
52.04148, 0.85593
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Place Barn is a timber-framed and weatherboarded barn dating from the 16th to 17th century. It features six bays and has two gabled entrance bays located on the north-east side. The roof is made of corrugated iron.

Local climate

Place Barn sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% 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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