Barn at Chale Abbey is a Grade II* listed building in the Isle of Wight local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 July 1951. A C16 Barn.
Barn at Chale Abbey
- WRENN ID
- stranded-facade-alder
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Isle of Wight
- Constituency
- Isle of Wight West MP: Richard Quigley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 July 1951
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Barn at Chale Abbey, Upper House Lane
- OS grid reference
- SZ 485 778
- Coordinates
- 50.59806, -1.31558
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The barn at Chale Abbey is an early 16th-century structure that was restored in the 19th century. It is constructed of stone rubble and features a slate roof. The east front includes a large projecting hipped waggon entrance and three stone buttresses, while the west front also has three stone buttresses. The north end gable displays tumbling in and kneelers, along with two stone mullioned windows positioned near the apex, separated by a central buttress that has splayed buttresses on either side. There is a row of triangular ventilation slits and a deep plinth. The barn consists of seven bays and has an arch-braced roof supported by angled queen struts. Only one truss is original; the others have been replaced with softwood. The roof itself is a 19th-century design, diagonally boarded with seven layers of purlins and a ridgepiece. This barn is recognized as one of the oldest on the Isle of Wight.
Local climate
Barn at Chale Abbey receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings
Nearby listed buildings
- Chale Abbey
- Lower House
- Upper Houses
- Cowdray Close Glebe Garth
- Chale War Memorial
- Church of St Andrew
- 3 Monuments in South Eastern Most Corner of the Churchyard of Church of St Andrew
- Milestone Against the South East Corner of the Churchyard Wall of Church of St Andrew
- K6 Telephone Kiosk Outside the Churchyard Wall South West of Church of St Andrew
- Nightingale