Barn at Northbury Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Wokingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 December 1983. A C16 Barn.
Barn at Northbury Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- plain-truss-swift
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wokingham
- Constituency
- Wokingham MP: Clive Jones (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 December 1983
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Barn at Northbury Farmhouse, Castle End Road, Ruscombe
- OS grid reference
- SU 797 766
- Coordinates
- 51.48344, -0.85265
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The barn at Northbury Farmhouse is a large grain barn dating from the 16th century. It features a timber frame with sections of brick infilling and weatherboarding, topped by a gabled roof made of corrugated iron. The barn consists of five framed bays and includes jowl posts with large curved braces. It has queen post roof trusses with clasped purlins, although some rafters have been replaced. The carpenter's marks are visible and appear in the correct sequence.
Local climate
Barn at Northbury Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% 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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