Barn, 20 Yards North of Upper Ensign House is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 August 1984. Barn.
Barn, 20 Yards North of Upper Ensign House
- WRENN ID
- seventh-spandrel-laurel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 August 1984
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Barn, 20 Yards North of Upper Ensign House, CT4 8BB
- OS grid reference
- TR 067 559
- Coordinates
- 51.26543, 0.96178
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a 17th-century barn located 20 yards north of Upper Ensign House in Old Wives Lees. The barn features a timber frame set on a plinth made of flint and brick, and it is clad in weatherboard with a roof covered in corrugated asbestos. The roof is hipped, with a hipped stray to the right. Inside, the barn has five aisled bays, passing shores, and arched bracing to a cambered tie-beam. The roof structure was updated in the 20th century with purlins.
Local climate
Barn, 20 Yards North of Upper Ensign House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1997
- No related consent applications matched
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