Monks Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Test Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 November 1986. Cottage. 9 related planning applications.
Monks Barn
- WRENN ID
- gentle-sill-hawk
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Test Valley
- Constituency
- Romsey and Southampton North MP: Caroline Nokes (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 November 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Monks Barn, Knapp Lane, Ampfield, SO51 9BT
- OS grid reference
- SU 403 234
- Coordinates
- 51.00938, -1.42556
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Monks Barn is a cottage that originally dates back to the 17th century. It features a timber-frame structure that was refaced and extended in the late 18th century, and remodeled in the mid-19th century in a Tudor style. The exterior is constructed of brick in English bond, with an old plain tile roof. The building has three bays and is one and a half stories tall, with full-height projecting porches at both ends and in the center, along with a 20th-century wing at the rear.
The front elevation has a window arrangement of 1.2.2.0 above 1.0.2.1, set on a plinth. The door is framed by a timber Tudor arch. The windows are casements, some made of cast iron, featuring diamond and square glazing patterns, and are placed under cambered arches. The porches are jettied on the first floor and are tile-hung with fishscale tiles. Gabled dormers with similar casements extend from the wallplate. A central 19th-century Tudor chimney stack has diagonally-set flues. Inside, the original timber-frame structure is virtually intact.
Local climate
Monks Barn receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 9 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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