Barn at Maltings Farm is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 February 1991. Barn.
Barn at Maltings Farm
- WRENN ID
- third-parapet-sable
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 February 1991
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Barn at Maltings Farm, Elderstub Lane, Rushbrooke with Rougham
- OS grid reference
- TL 895 628
- Coordinates
- 52.23102, 0.77399
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The barn at Maltings Farm is an early 19th-century structure. It is built of tarred clay lump on a flint and brick base, with the south wall partly constructed in early to mid-19th century brick, also tarred. The roof is covered with glazed black pantiles. The barn has a six-bay plan featuring two threshing floors.
On the east elevation, there are plank doors leading to two gabled porches, along with ventilation slits beneath the eaves. A clay lump lean-to is attached, which has double entry to the southeast. To the north, there is a one-storey and loft clay lump stable that extends slightly around to the front in a lean-to form. The gable end of this stable has two stable doors, a 20th-century vehicular entrance, and a loft door with small ventilation openings on either side.
The west elevation features plank double doors, ventilation slits beneath the eaves, and two later 19th-century raking buttresses. Inside, the barn has a six-bay clasped-purlin roof that has been reinforced with additional purlins, strutting, and two extra tie beams. This barn is noted for being a complete and unusual example of a large clay lump barn.
Local climate
Barn at Maltings Farm sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% 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 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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