Barn to North of Priors Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Sevenoaks local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 January 1975. Barn.
Barn to North of Priors Cottage
- WRENN ID
- long-gateway-wagtail
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sevenoaks
- Constituency
- Tonbridge MP: Tom Tugendhat (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 January 1975
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Barn to North of Priors Cottage, the Square, Cowden
- OS grid reference
- TQ 466 405
- Coordinates
- 51.14517, 0.09498
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a barn located to the north of Priors Cottage, likely dating from the 16th century. It features weatherboarding and has a high-pitched tiled roof supported by a rubble and brick foundation. Inside, some of the roof trusses include queen posts, while the outer trusses have queen struts. There are wind braces supporting the purlins and diagonal braces above the half rail.
Local climate
Barn to North of Priors Cottage receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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