Barn About 20 Metres East of Rowling House is a Grade II listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 December 1986. Barn.
Barn About 20 Metres East of Rowling House
- WRENN ID
- iron-ashlar-cream
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dover
- Constituency
- Herne Bay and Sandwich MP: Sir Roger Gale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 December 1986
- Type
- Barn
- OS grid reference
- TR 272 548
- Coordinates
- 51.24739, 1.2547
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This barn, located about 20 metres east of Rowling House, dates from the 16th to 17th century and was constructed in two phases. It features a timber frame clad with red brick and has an asbestos-clad roof. The roof is half-hipped with a raking mid stry and includes an extension at the rear left. Inside, the barn has four bays with aisles and terminal outshots. There are passing shores to the arcade posts in the main range and quadrant braces in the return wing. The roof structure consists of clasped purlins.
Local climate
Barn About 20 Metres East of Rowling House receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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