Valley Farmhouse Barn Approximately 20 Metres South is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. Barn.

Valley Farmhouse Barn Approximately 20 Metres South

WRENN ID
shadowed-soffit-frost
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Constituency
Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Barn
OS grid reference
TM 043 578
Coordinates
52.18137, 0.98802
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Valley Farmhouse Barn is a barn dating from the late 16th century, with minor external alterations made in 1847. It features a rendered and colourwashed timber frame, along with some areas of corrugated-iron cladding. The roof is made of corrugated asbestos. The north elevation has a blocked central door, while the south elevation includes a corrugated-iron porch and 20th-century flanking outshuts.

Inside, the barn has five bays of heavy scantling framing, with a middle rail. The principal studs are supported by arched braces connecting to the tie beams, although some braces are missing. There are queen struts supporting the principal rafters, a lower tier of butt purlins in a diamond section, and an upper tier that is clasped. The structure also features collars and curved windbracing.

Local climate

Valley Farmhouse Barn Approximately 20 Metres South 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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