Barn Approximately 100 Metres North West of Abbey Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 June 1951. Barn.
Barn Approximately 100 Metres North West of Abbey Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- high-nave-thunder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 June 1951
- Type
- Barn
- OS grid reference
- TM 152 740
- Coordinates
- 52.32244, 1.15714
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This barn, located approximately 100 metres northwest of Abbey Farmhouse, is a Grade II listed building. Originally an ecclesiastical structure of unknown function linked to the Priory of St Peter, which was dissolved in 1537, it dates back to around 1500. The building was used as a house from the mid-16th century and converted to a barn in the 18th century. It suffered fire damage around 1920.
The barn is constructed of red brick with re-used ashlar and features a pantiled roof. It has two storeys and a five-window range. The west face displays English bond brickwork, with a blocked doorway to the right of centre that has chamfered jambs and a four-centred head. There are four evenly spaced two-light chamfered brick windows on the ground floor, along with one later square-headed opening to the left of centre. The first floor contains four single-light chamfered brick lancets and one two-light window. The roof is gabled.
The east flank is made of early 18th-century brick laid in English bond, featuring four ground-floor openings and three on the first floor, including the remains of one first-floor arched window. The north gable includes re-used ashlar, while the south gable previously had one two-light stone window on each floor, which was removed in the late 20th century, although the upper window jambs remain.
Inside, the barn was re-roofed in the 1920s, and there is evidence of an upper hall at the south end. It is also designated as a Scheduled Ancient Monument, with the county number 199.
Local climate
Barn Approximately 100 Metres North West of Abbey Farmhouse 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 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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