Barn and Engine House at Newland Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Wokingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 August 2002. Barn, engine house.

Barn and Engine House at Newland Farm

WRENN ID
twelfth-moulding-yew
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wokingham
Constituency
Wokingham MP: Clive Jones (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 August 2002
Type
Barn, engine house
Address
Barn and Engine House at Newland Farm, Arborfield and Newland
OS grid reference
SU 762 671
Coordinates
51.39859, -0.90598
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The barn and attached horse engine house at Newland Farm date from the late 18th century. They are timber-framed with weather-boarding set on a brick plinth and feature a tiled roof. The barn consists of five bays and has a central entrance, while the engine house, which is square and has two bays, is attached to the southwest corner.

On the exterior, the north elevation faces the farmyard and has double doors in the central bay of the barn. The brick plinth is deeper at the east end to accommodate the slope. The east elevation is weather-boarded with a half-hipped roof and a deep brick plinth. The south elevation also has double doors in the central bay and a deeper plinth at the east end. To the left, the projecting engine house has a hipped tiled roof, with its framed walls filled in with brick and covered in corrugated metal sheeting.

Inside, the barn features a five-bay layout with a Queen post roof that includes a collar, an additional pair of raking struts, and arched braces to the wall posts. There is cross bracing at each bay to the walls. An inserted loft is present at the east end, enclosed with weather-boarding, and there is an inserted floor at the west end. The attached engine house has a single purlin hipped roof, with a pair of curved braces at each corner and a central wall post. The central beam retains part of the housing for a horse-powered corn grinding machine.

This barn and engine house are mostly complete and well built, and they hold group value with the early 18th-century brick stable, the early 19th-century cattle shed, and a similar late 18th-century barn across the farmyard.

Local climate

Barn and Engine House at Newland Farm sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% 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 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% 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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