Barn at Sparrow Hall is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 April 1984. A C17 Barn.

Barn at Sparrow Hall

WRENN ID
shadowed-tower-khaki
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Suffolk
Constituency
Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 April 1984
Type
Barn
Address
Barn at Sparrow Hall, Euston
OS grid reference
TL 928 792
Coordinates
52.37763, 0.83213
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The barn at Sparrow Hall is a 17th-century aisled barn located within a small farmstead group. It is timber-framed and weatherboarded, topped with a clay pantiled roof. The structure consists of six bays, with a later cart entry added in the third bay from the west. The roof spans six bays, matching the frame's bays, featuring diminished principals that are deeper but not wider than the common rafters. It has clasped purlins and slightly cambered collars on the trusses, along with shallow windbraces and an intermediate collar in each bay, topped with a deep, narrow ridge piece. The rafters over the aisles have been renewed.

The main posts have long shallow jowls, with slightly arched braces connecting to the arcade plates and tie-beams. All components are pegged, though some have later bolting added. The arcade posts rest on low dwarf walls and are connected to the aisles with side-ties and diagonal struts to the aisle rafters. A few smaller components within the structure are reused. The two end walls feature thin bisected studs and long primary braces, which may date from a later period than the rest of the frame.

Local climate

Barn at Sparrow Hall sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% 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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