Weatherboard Barn and Attached Yard Wall at Hookend Farm (On North Side of Farm Yard) is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 July 1990. Barn.
Weatherboard Barn and Attached Yard Wall at Hookend Farm (On North Side of Farm Yard)
- WRENN ID
- low-gargoyle-pigeon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Berkshire
- Constituency
- Reading West and Mid Berkshire MP: Olivia Bailey (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 July 1990
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Weatherboard Barn and Attached Yard Wall at Hookend Farm (On North Side of Farm Yard), Basildon
- OS grid reference
- SU 592 777
- Coordinates
- 51.49565, -1.14802
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a weatherboard barn with an attached yard wall, located at Hookend Farm on the north side of the farmyard. The barn likely dates from the late 18th century and incorporates some earlier timber. It has been altered over time, while the yard wall was built in the mid to late 19th century. The barn is timber-framed and features weatherboard cladding on a brick and flint plinth. It has a half-hipped plain tile roof, with Welsh slate covering the rear aisle and midstray.
The barn consists of three bays and includes an aisle on the north side, with central opposing cart-entries that have double board doors. The north-side entry is under a half-hipped gable, while the south-side entry is in a later pent-roofed midstray, which has late 20th-century weatherboarding on the right. There is also a later shelter-shed addition across the left bay, which is not of special interest.
From the southeast corner of the barn, the yard wall extends across the farmyard, featuring rounded brick coping and a gateway at the barn end, which has a replacement gate that is not of special interest. Inside the barn, the timber frame is preserved, including jowelled wall posts that are straight-braced to the wall-plate and arch-braced to the tie-beams. The roof structure includes collared queen-post trusses, clasped purlins, wind braces, some replacement rafters, and an inserted ridge-piece, with the rear right bay heightened.
Local climate
Weatherboard Barn and Attached Yard Wall at Hookend Farm (On North Side of Farm Yard) sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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