Barn 60 Metres South of Number 1 (Chain House) is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 May 1986. Barn.

Barn 60 Metres South of Number 1 (Chain House)

WRENN ID
tangled-cloister-thyme
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Constituency
Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 May 1986
Type
Barn
OS grid reference
TM 089 547
Coordinates
52.15105, 1.0535
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This barn, located 60 meters south of Number 1 (Chain House), is likely from the 17th century. It features five bays and is constructed with a timber frame that is weatherboarded. The roof is thatched, and there is a prominent gabled thatched midstrey in the center of the east wall, which includes a pair of boarded barn doors. On the east side, there are two 19th-century lean-to extensions, one with pantiles and the other with plain tiles.

Local climate

Barn 60 Metres South of Number 1 (Chain House) 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 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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