Barn Elms Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 November 1983. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Barn Elms Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- seventh-clay-blackthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Berkshire
- Constituency
- Reading West and Mid Berkshire MP: Olivia Bailey (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 November 1983
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Barn Elms Farmhouse, Dark Lane, Bradfield, RG7 6DF
- OS grid reference
- SU 606 733
- Coordinates
- 51.45596, -1.12792
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Barn Elms Farmhouse is a farmhouse dated 1671, featuring early 19th-century window alterations and a mid-19th-century wing to the east. It is constructed of red brick, with a plinth and a moulded plat band. The building has a hipped old tile roof with a catslide at the rear and a projecting central stair wing with a queen post truss in the gable end, along with a large central ridge stack that has arched panels. The farmhouse is designed in a lobby entrance style and stands two storeys high with three bays, featuring glazing bar sash windows with brick relieving arches above. The central doorway has two 2-panelled doors, a moulded surround, and a rectangular overlight. There is a 20th-century brick porch with a gabled tile roof. The mid-19th-century wing to the right is also made of red brick, has an old tile roof, and an off-centre stack to the left. This wing is two storeys tall and includes a segmental-headed boarded door to the right. Inside, there is a 17th-century square well staircase with three flights, turned balusters, and square newels topped with ball finials.
Local climate
Barn Elms Farmhouse 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- 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
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