Barn at the Rear and at Right Angles to Abbey Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 April 1987. Barn.
Barn at the Rear and at Right Angles to Abbey Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- far-hammer-jay
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 April 1987
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Barn at the Rear and at Right Angles to Abbey Farmhouse, the Street, St. James, South Elmham, IP19 0HT
- OS grid reference
- TM 316 811
- Coordinates
- 52.37897, 1.40257
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The barn at the rear and at right angles to Abbey Farmhouse dates from the late 16th century to early 17th century. It is timber-framed and weatherboarded, topped with clay pantiles. The structure consists of three bays, featuring full height studs in the long walls and middle rails in the gable walls. The corners have cranked, reversed braces, and there are arched braces supporting the tie beams. The roof is divided into five bays, supported by two rows of butt purlins and arched windbraces. Attached to one gable end is a single-storey range of stabling and outhouses built in the 19th century, constructed from red brick and covered with clay pantiles.
Local climate
Barn at the Rear and at Right Angles to Abbey Farmhouse 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% 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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