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

Leylands Barn

WRENN ID
guardian-facade-alder
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Gravesham
Constituency
Gravesham MP: Dr Lauren Sullivan (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 July 1983
Type
Barn
Address
Leylands Barn, Wrotham Road, Meopham
OS grid reference
TQ 638 648
Coordinates
51.35894, 0.35195
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Leylands Barn is a 17th-century structure featuring three bays and an aisle on the south side. It is constructed with oak timbers and has a weatherboarded exterior topped with thatch. The barn includes posts with jowls and curved struts, and it has a collar roof that does not have posts to tie beams.

Local climate

Leylands Barn 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 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% 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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