Barn, 15 Yards North East of Downsell's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 November 1984. Barn.

Barn, 15 Yards North East of Downsell's Cottage

WRENN ID
bitter-jamb-willow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Swale
Constituency
Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 November 1984
Type
Barn
OS grid reference
TQ 877 595
Coordinates
51.30384, 0.69212
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a 17th-century barn located 15 yards northeast of Downsells Cottage. It is timber framed and covered with asbestos sheeting, featuring a hipped roof. Inside, the barn has five bays with aisles, passing shores to the arcade posts, a clasped purlin roof, and wind bracing.

Local climate

Barn, 15 Yards North East of Downsell's Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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