Barn 60 Metres North West of Abbey Farmhouse is a Grade II* listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. Barn.

Barn 60 Metres North West of Abbey Farmhouse

WRENN ID
ancient-slate-swift
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
East Suffolk
Constituency
Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Barn
OS grid reference
TM 390 579
Coordinates
52.1684, 1.49398
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a 13th-century aisled barn located approximately 60 meters north-west of Abbey Farmhouse. It is constructed with a timber frame and weatherboarding, featuring a main roof covered with pantiles and corrugated sheeting over the aisles. The roof was renewed around 1960 and now has a mansard shape. The barn consists of seven bays, with the two at the west end being a later addition that incorporates reused timbers. The original entrance is located on the north side, in the third bay from the east end.

The main posts of the barn have jowled heads and are intentionally angled inward. Their bases rest on low timber balks, which may be secondary supports; the first post from the eastern end in the northern arcade appears to be set directly into the ground. The trusses feature a pair of straight braces and a pair of passing braces, which are morticed into the tie-beam and are trenched across the main posts and the side-ties to the aisles. Many of these braces have been replaced with bolted knees. The braces connecting the posts to the arcade plates are numbered from 1 to 10. Each wallplate has a stop splayed scarfing joint with sallied butts and a key, similar to those found in the barn at Great Coxwell, Berkshire. The main frame is assembled in a standard manner, while the aisles show reversed assembly, although the aisle walls have largely been rebuilt using sections of older wall plates.

Local climate

Barn 60 Metres North West of Abbey 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 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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