Barn About 10 Metres South of Bartons Farm Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 October 1987. Barn.

Barn About 10 Metres South of Bartons Farm Cottages

WRENN ID
scattered-moat-sedge
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Maidstone
Constituency
Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 October 1987
Type
Barn
OS grid reference
TQ 716 455
Coordinates
51.18383, 0.45455
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This barn, located about 10 metres south of Bartons Farm Cottages, dates from the early to mid-17th century. It is timber framed and weatherboarded, standing on a stone plinth, with a corrugated iron roof. The structure features five timber-framed bays and a central midstrey, topped with a gabled roof. The barn has central full-height double doors and a later lean-to shelter attached to the left gable end.

Inside, the barn showcases gunstock-jowled posts, and the tie-beams are not morticed for arch braces. The roof is a clasped-purlin type with diminishing principal rafters, short almost straight windbraces, and vertical queen struts supporting the collars. There is one brace for the threshing floor, and each bay has a tension brace, with a pair of braces at each gable end. The south gable end features stave, lath and daub infilling above the midrail, while the rear wall has similar infilling with broad boards below. There are mortices for a diamond mullion window with a shutter groove under the right gable end tie-beam, and chamfered midrail soffits. The right end bay was formerly floored and has a partition under the tie-beam, with an edge-halved wall-plate scarf joint.

Local climate

Barn About 10 Metres South of Bartons Farm Cottages receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% 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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