Barn at Field Barn Farm is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 August 1991. Barn. 1 related planning application.

Barn at Field Barn Farm

WRENN ID
fallen-pedestal-auburn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Berkshire
Constituency
Reading West and Mid Berkshire MP: Olivia Bailey (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 August 1991
Type
Barn
Address
Barn at Field Barn Farm, Beenham, RG7 5LT
OS grid reference
SU 603 685
Coordinates
51.41257, -1.13433
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The barn at Field Barn Farm is a Grade II listed building, likely constructed in the second half of the 18th century. It features a timber frame with weatherboard cladding set on a high, chamfered red brick plinth, topped by a half-hipped roof made of Welsh slate. The barn is aisled and consists of six bays, with an additional outshut added to the right side on the southwest. There are opposing central cart entries that have double board doors in hipped-roofed midstrays, and on the northwest side of each entry, there are two doors and a window. The east gable retains some old tarred weatherboard and includes a board door to a hatch, with a bird-hole located to its left.

Inside, two of the northwestern bays are partitioned off, and there is a bird left in the southeast gable. The frame includes jowelled wall-posts on the brick plinth walls, which are braced to the arcade plate and tie-beams. The principal rafters are complemented by curved secondary rafters and braces that extend up to the collars, with clasped through purlins and long raking wind braces. The original rafters and a yoked plank ridge-piece support a boarded roof. The wall framing consists of closely set studs and long raking braces, with some reused timbers present.

Local climate

Barn at Field Barn Farm receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 64% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 1995
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • 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
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