Barn Approximately 150 Metres North of Little Wenham Castle and West of Church of St Lawrence is a Grade II* listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 October 1990. Barn.

Barn Approximately 150 Metres North of Little Wenham Castle and West of Church of St Lawrence

WRENN ID
south-brick-dock
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Babergh
Constituency
South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 October 1990
Type
Barn
OS grid reference
TM 080 392
Coordinates
52.01234, 1.03005
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a 16th-century barn located approximately 150 metres north of Little Wenham Castle and west of the Church of St Lawrence. The barn is constructed of red brick, featuring some black headers and decorative diapering on the lower storey, while the upper storey is timber framed with brick nogging infill. It has a pantiled roof and a gabled midstreys on the east face. The structure consists of eight bays, with two nine-light mullions on both the east and west faces, as well as mullions on the gabled returns. There is a vertically boarded door on the north side of the east face, which is supported by several brick buttresses. The roof structure includes queen posts with arched braces to the collars, double side purlins, and arched braces to the upper purlins and tie beams. Four pairs of storey posts have been inserted, along with the original half-height storey posts, which are chamfered and jowled. The top plate features halved and bridled scarfs.

Local climate

Barn Approximately 150 Metres North of Little Wenham Castle and West of Church of St Lawrence sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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