Barn at Colts Hall Farm is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 April 1990. Barn.

Barn at Colts Hall Farm

WRENN ID
white-bailey-lichen
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Suffolk
Constituency
West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 April 1990
Type
Barn
Address
Barn at Colts Hall Farm, Cavendish
OS grid reference
TL 792 476
Coordinates
52.09845, 0.61599
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The barn at Colts Hall Farm is a 14th-century structure that was remodeled in the 17th century. It features weatherboarding over a timber frame and has a half-hipped roof made of pantiles and corrugated iron. The barn has an aisled five-bay plan with a central threshing floor and includes plank double doors leading to a lean-to porch. Inside, there are 14th-century unjowled aisle posts with lateral bracing to the arcade plates and passing braces from the sole plates of the aisles to the aisle posts, which are halved into aisle tie beams. There are also bolted 19th-century knee braces inserted beneath the tie beams. The roof is from the 17th century, consisting of side purlins with raking side struts, lower butt purlins, and upper clasped purlins to the collars. This barn is one of about 15 medieval barns remaining in Suffolk.

Local climate

Barn at Colts Hall 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 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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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