Barn About 50 Metres North of Chittinghurst is a Grade II* listed building in the Wealden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 October 1989. Barn.

Barn About 50 Metres North of Chittinghurst

WRENN ID
shadowed-parapet-grain
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Wealden
Constituency
Sussex Weald MP: Ms Nusrat Ghani (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 October 1989
Type
Barn
OS grid reference
TQ 615 290
Coordinates
51.03844, 0.30278
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a barn located about 50 meters north of Chittinghurst, likely built around 1500. The barn features 20th-century vertical boarding over a timber frame. The northern end has wattle and daub infill above a midrail, with horizontal boarding and raking poles that support the oversailing eaves plate. The roof is hipped and covered with corrugated iron. The structure consists of four bays, with an off-center threshing floor. The west elevation includes a 20th-century plank door at the west end and a full-height doorway leading to the threshing bay, which is situated south of the center.

Inside, the barn has an exposed timber frame with wall bracing, midrails, and vertical studding. The wall posts are jointed and arch-braced, supporting a chamfered tie-beam of a four-bay crown-post roof, which features raking side struts to clasped purlins. The three bays to the north of the threshing floor are raised, and the truss in the northernmost bay includes additional wall posts with morticing for a floor-beam that has since been removed. This area, along with a window that retains four wood-mullioned lights on the east side, suggests that this bay may have originally been floored and possibly used as a dwelling.

Local climate

Barn About 50 Metres North of Chittinghurst receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 66% 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 67% 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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