Barn at Highfield Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Wokingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 July 1999. Barn.
Barn at Highfield Farm
- WRENN ID
- lone-keystone-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wokingham
- Constituency
- Wokingham MP: Clive Jones (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 July 1999
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Barn at Highfield Farm, Wargrave
- OS grid reference
- SU 798 800
- Coordinates
- 51.51353, -0.85004
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The barn at Highfield Farm is a Grade II listed building, dated 1790, with alterations from the 19th and 20th centuries. It features a timber frame with weatherboard cladding, some of which is original, set on a plinth made of brick, flint, and chalk. The roof is covered with plain tiles. The barn consists of five bays and has central, opposing cart entries, with the south side featuring a gabled midstrey. An outshut with a catslide roof has been added to the left bays on the south side. The north cart entry has double board doors, while the south cart entry has been modified, replacing the original doors with weatherboard and including a pedestrian entrance. There are 20th-century windows in the gables and a board door leading to the outshut.
Inside, the barn retains its original timber frame, which includes a sole-plate, jowelled wall-posts with both curved and straight braces connecting to the wall-plate and tie-beams, intermediate posts and studs, and a mid-rail. The roof structure consists of double purlins with principal rafter trusses; three of these trusses have curved secondary rafters supporting collars, while the others have straight secondary rafters. A plank ridge-piece with yokes at the trusses and rafters, along with straight wind braces, are also present. One of the central tie-beams is inscribed with "I H E S T 1790". Additionally, remnants of the drive mechanism for former agricultural machinery can be found attached to the frame.
This barn is a dated example of a high-quality late 18th-century timber-framed structure.
Local climate
Barn at Highfield Farm 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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