Owls Castle Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Gravesham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 July 1983. Barn.

Owls Castle Barn

WRENN ID
iron-barrel-curlew
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Gravesham
Constituency
Gravesham MP: Dr Lauren Sullivan (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 July 1983
Type
Barn
Address
Owls Castle Barn, Wrotham Road, Meopham
OS grid reference
TQ 635 631
Coordinates
51.34409, 0.3471
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Owls Castle Barn is a 16th-century barn with five bays. The north side is timber-framed, while the south side features a buttressed flint wall. The roof is hipped and currently covered with shingles. Inside, there are queen posts, and the north side has two waggon porches.

Local climate

Owls Castle Barn receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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