Barn About 50 Metres West South West of Strickland Manor Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 February 1989. Barn.

Barn About 50 Metres West South West of Strickland Manor Farmhouse

WRENN ID
under-hearth-fen
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Suffolk
Constituency
Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 February 1989
Type
Barn
OS grid reference
TM 384 691
Coordinates
52.2688, 1.493
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This barn, located about 50 meters west-southwest of Strickland Manor Farmhouse, was built in 1772. It is constructed of English bond red brick with a tumbled brickwash finish and features a parapeted gable. The roof is made of clay pantiles and has gabled ends.

The barn has a five-bay plan, which includes ten narrow roof bays. The central bay contains a threshing floor, and there is an unusually large midstrey at the front. In the left angle of the midstrey, a stable with a loft above was likely added in the 19th century, while a single-storey outshut was also probably added in the 19th century in the right-hand angle.

The east front features a large gabled midstrey with a relatively small doorway that has a segmental brick arch and plank double doors. Above the doorway, there is a ventilation slit and the initials "R.C" displayed in large wrought iron letters. To the left of the midstrey, the stables have a central doorway and a small loft doorway above, with a weatherboarded gable. To the right, the outshut has a lean-to roof made of corrugated iron.

The rear, or west elevation, has a central full-height cart entrance with plank double doors and a ventilation slit to the right. There are also ventilation slits in the end gables, with the right-hand (north) gable displaying the date "1772" in large wrought iron numbers. The southwest corner of the barn is supported by two later brick raking buttresses.

Inside, the walls are made of exposed brick, and the original roof structure remains intact. It consists of ten narrow bays with principal rafters, two tiers of staggered butt purlins, morticed collars, and tie-beams. There is a complete set of common rafters without a ridgepiece or ridgeboard, and a similar three-bay roof over the large midstrey. The roof is largely unaltered, except for the addition of two later inserted king-post trusses.

Local climate

Barn About 50 Metres West South West of Strickland Manor Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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