Barn Approximately 40 Metres North West of Barn Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1986. Barn.
Barn Approximately 40 Metres North West of Barn Cottage
- WRENN ID
- hidden-cobalt-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Berkshire
- Constituency
- Reading West and Mid Berkshire MP: Olivia Bailey (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 June 1986
- Type
- Barn
- OS grid reference
- SU 529 763
- Coordinates
- 51.48349, -1.2388
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This large threshing barn, dating from the 17th century, is located approximately 40 metres north-west of Barn Cottage in Hampstead Norreys. It features a timber frame and an old tile roof that is both half hipped and hipped at the gable end, with a lower hipped extension facing the street. The barn has seven framed bays and aisles on both sides, along with two large hipped wagon entrances. Inside, there is an arch-braced collar roof supported by double purlins, reducing principal rafters, wind races to both purlins, and jowled posts. The barn is an important element in the street.
Local climate
Barn Approximately 40 Metres North West of Barn Cottage 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 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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