Barn 40 Metres South West of the Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 January 1988. Barn.

Barn 40 Metres South West of the Post Office

WRENN ID
gentle-flue-mist
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Constituency
Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 January 1988
Type
Barn
OS grid reference
TM 042 563
Coordinates
52.1679, 0.98586
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This barn, located 40 meters southwest of the Post Office, dates from the late 17th century and consists of three bays. It is timber-framed and plastered, with some sections underbuilt in tarred red brick on the north side. The roof is pantiled, having originally been thatched. The north side features a set of four 19th-century boarded doors in the center bay. The barn displays close-studding with tension stud-bracing and a middle rail. Both open trusses maintain plank arch braces, and the roof has clasped purlins with some windbracing. At the east end, there is a lean-to addition that is weatherboarded and thatched, dating from the 18th or 19th century, and on the south side, there is another lean-to that is pantiled.

Local climate

Barn 40 Metres South West of the Post Office 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 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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