Flint barn and attached flint shelter shed and yard wall at Hookend Farm (forming south-east corner 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.
Flint barn and attached flint shelter shed and yard wall at Hookend Farm (forming south-east corner of farm yard)
- WRENN ID
- rusted-sentry-starling
- 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
- Flint barn and attached flint shelter shed and yard wall at Hookend Farm (forming south-east corner of farm yard), Hook End Farm, Ashampstead, Basildon, RG8 8SD
- OS grid reference
- SU 592 777
- Coordinates
- 51.49538, -1.14768
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building at Hookend Farm consists of a flint barn, an attached flint shelter shed now used as cattle boxes, and a section of yard wall, all forming the south-east corner of the farmyard. This structure dates from the mid to late 19th century and features flint with a brick plinth, quoins, pilaster strips, bands, and surrounds to openings, while the yard wall is made of red brick. The roofs are covered with plain tiles.
The barn is an aisled four-bay structure with a four-bay shelter shed located to the rear left. On the east elevation, the second bay includes a tall, gabled cart-entry with a double door made of boards and a weatherboarded gable. The roof is half-hipped and has cambered-arched openings in each gable, along with slit vents on the right return. An addition on the right side is not considered of special interest.
At the rear, there is a similar opposing cart-entry. The shelter shed, which projects on the right, has its front infilled with weatherboarding and vertical boarding, featuring three stable doors. The gable has a hipped roof and is connected to a short section of yard wall with rounded brick coping.
Inside the barn, there are reused jowelled wall posts, iron-bolted, braced, collared queen-post trusses, two tiers of clasped purlins, and a boarded roof. The internal lining is primarily brick, mostly in stretcher bond.
Local climate
Flint barn and attached flint shelter shed and yard wall at Hookend Farm (forming south-east corner 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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