Barn, 50 Metres East of St Petronella's Church is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1984. Barn.

Barn, 50 Metres East of St Petronella's Church

WRENN ID
rusted-corner-cedar
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Suffolk
Constituency
West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 January 1984
Type
Barn
OS grid reference
TL 833 582
Coordinates
52.19202, 0.68116
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This barn, located 50 metres east of St. Petronella's Church, dates from the early 17th century and incorporates main components that were reused from a 13th-century barn. It features six bays and two aisles, with doorways located at bays 2 and 5. The roof is covered with asbestos and corrugated iron sheets. The walls are weather-boarded timber framing set on a plinth made of flint and limestone rubble, with red brick quoins.

The barn exhibits curved arcade and tie beam braces, as well as aisle braces that extend from the aisle tie-beam up to the principal post head. Most of the principal posts and tie beams, along with sections of the eaves and arcade plates, have been rejoined and reused in the current 17th-century structure, originally being part of the earlier 13th-century barn. Each truss of the original barn was braced with two pairs of passing braces, one above the other, which were housed at the upper end into the tie-beam with a secret notched-lap joint and at the lower end into a post in the external wall. The existing plinth includes re-used carved limestone fragments from the 13th to 16th centuries. The aisle walls were raised and the roof was rebuilt around 1800, reusing old rafters.

Local climate

Barn, 50 Metres East of St Petronella's Church 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 85% 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 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% 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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