Barn at Heath Farm is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 April 1984. Barn.
Barn at Heath Farm
- WRENN ID
- noble-eave-bramble
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 April 1984
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Barn at Heath Farm, Little Livermere
- OS grid reference
- TL 867 731
- Coordinates
- 52.32442, 0.73872
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The barn at Heath Farm is an early 18th-century structure that features a timber frame and weatherboarding, topped with a slate roof, except for the westernmost bay which has pantiles. The barn consists of seven bays and includes a wide cart entry in the central bay. The wall framing is distinctive, with alternate bays on each side having a middle rail that does not align from one side to the other. The studs are positioned on edge, and in the bays without a middle rail, they are divided by long primary braces. The barn has straight tie-beams with long arched braces on all but one truss, which features bolted kneed braces that appear to be original. The roof is composed of nine bays with two rows of stepped purlins and a ridge-piece. All components are pegged, and there are no reused timbers. A partition has been removed from the easternmost bay, and a mid-20th-century floor has been added throughout the building. Additionally, there is a 19th-century lean-to extension along the entire south side.
Local climate
Barn at Heath Farm 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 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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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