Barn at Harmansole Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. A Medieval Barn.

Barn at Harmansole Farm

WRENN ID
sleeping-roof-root
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Canterbury
Constituency
Canterbury MP: Rosie Duffield (Ind)
Country
England
Type
Barn
Period
Medieval
Address
Barn at Harmansole Farm, Stone Street, Lower Hardres and Nackington
OS grid reference
TR 139 526
Coordinates
51.23327, 1.0635
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The barn at Harmansole Farm is likely from the 15th and 16th centuries. It features a timber frame and is weatherboarded above a partly chequer brick plinth. The roof is covered with clay plain tiles and has a half hip at the southeast end, with a brick gable from the 18th or 19th century at the northeast end. The barn is L-shaped with aisles and has a sealed weatherboarded and gabled wagon entry on the northeast elevation. There are later boarded doors at the southeast end and blocked narrower entries on the southwest elevation, along with a window at the north end. The northwest elevation includes three windows, a roof light, and a door.

Inside, the north wing runs on a northeast axis and consists of roughly 3½ bays on the north side and 2½ bays on the south side. It has a crown-post roof with aisle braces and braces to the tie beam and aisle plate, although some braces are missing. The aisled wing at right angles has three bays on the east side and four on the west side, featuring a side purlin roof with tie beam and aisle-plate braces, some of which are also missing. There are several edge-halved scarf joints in the aisle-plate at tie-beam level, and many rafters have been renewed.

Local climate

Barn at Harmansole Farm receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% 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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