Barn at the Beeches is a Grade II listed building in the Lewes local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 December 2000. Barn. 1 related planning application.
Barn at the Beeches
- WRENN ID
- noble-pedestal-spring
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lewes
- Constituency
- East Grinstead and Uckfield MP: Mims Davies (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 December 2000
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Barn at the Beeches, Barcombe
- OS grid reference
- TQ 419 145
- Coordinates
- 50.91267, 0.01843
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Barn at the Beeches is a barn dating from the mid to late 17th century. It features a timber frame clad in weatherboarding and has a half-hipped plain tiled roof. The barn has two pairs of full-height doors located on the central bays, which are plain boarded and include a diagonal brace.
Inside, the oak frame consists of three bays supported by jowled posts. These posts hold a tie beam with curved wind braces for each bay. Two simple struts support the purlins and principal trusses, while the truss at the hipped end has high-level bracing in the form of a collar and king post that supports the hip. The wall frames are made from vertical studs with diagonal braces positioned between the wall plate and sill beam. Additionally, the frame is diagonally braced at the corners of the wall plates. An internal platform has been added in the southernmost bay at a later date.
Historically, the barn is depicted on a survey and map from around 1740, which shows the Beechers estate belonging to George Egles, located in the East Sussex County Records Office.
Local climate
Barn at the Beeches receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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