Barn at Sparrowe's Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Ipswich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 August 1972. Barn.

Barn at Sparrowe's Farm

WRENN ID
under-garret-grove
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ipswich
Constituency
Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 August 1972
Type
Barn
Address
Barn at Sparrowe's Farm, Henley Road, IP1 6TB
OS grid reference
TM 160 479
Coordinates
52.08752, 1.15174
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The barn at Sparrowe's Farm is an 18th-century structure made of red brick, featuring Dutch gable ends at both the east and west ends. The roof is covered with pantiles. This barn, along with Sparrowe's Nest and the farmhouse, forms a cohesive group of buildings.

Local climate

Barn at Sparrowe's Farm 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 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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