Barn to West of Popeswood Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Wealden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 April 2006. Barn. 1 related planning application.
Barn to West of Popeswood Farm
- WRENN ID
- silver-flagstone-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wealden
- Constituency
- East Grinstead and Uckfield MP: Mims Davies (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 April 2006
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Barn to West of Popeswood Farm, Pound Green, Buxted, TN22 4PL
- OS grid reference
- TQ 511 233
- Coordinates
- 50.98971, 0.15288
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a haybarn located to the west of Popeswood Farm, dating from the later 17th century, with an early 19th-century outshot to the north. The barn is timber-framed and clad in weatherboarding, sitting on a brick and stone plinth, topped with a hipped tiled roof. The structure features a four-bay design with a lean-to outshot on the north side.
On the exterior, the penultimate bay to the south has full-height double wooden cart doors that have been recently replaced. The north outshot includes a small 20th-century metal-framed casement window and two plank doors. The attached brick cowsheds to the west are not considered of special interest.
Inside, the wall frame has a midrail and retains most of the original curved tension braces, along with jowled upright posts. The cart entrance in the west wall of the penultimate bay was filled in later. The upright posts beside the cart entrance have replaced thinner tension braces to the tie beams. The roof is constructed with queenposts, purlins, and pegged rafters, lacking a ridgepiece. The north exterior wall, sheltered by the outshot, mostly retains its old weatherboarding, though some has been replaced with breezeblocks.
Historically, the barn is depicted on the First Edition Ordnance Survey map and has been used as a haybarn within living memory. It is a significant example of a four-bay timber-framed haybarn with a largely intact frame from the later 17th century, contributing to the farm group that includes Popeswood Farmhouse and a former stable with a hayloft above.
Local climate
Barn to West of Popeswood Farm receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% 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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