Boars Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 June 1988. Barn. 1 related planning application.
Boars Barn
- WRENN ID
- twisted-rubblework-thyme
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 June 1988
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Boars Barn, Kenton Road, Bedingfield, Eye, IP23 7LH
- OS grid reference
- TM 186 671
- Coordinates
- 52.2592, 1.20251
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Boars Barn is a former barn dating from the 16th century. It is timber framed and weatherboarded, with a roof covered in corrugated iron. The structure consists of three surviving bays from a larger barn that likely had at least six bays originally extending to the southeast. The barn features intact, closely spaced heavy studding, mostly with a middle rail, and arched braces at the corners, which are halved against the outside of the studs on the original gable end to the northwest. There are cranked arched braces supporting one open tie beam and one original brace on the other side. A cart entrance has been created in the center bay to the north, accompanied by a lean-to porch that dates to around 1700. The barn retains an intact queen-post roof with thin plank-like braces connecting the arcade plates and collars, and it has widely spaced rafters that have likely been re-set.
Local climate
Boars Barn 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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