Horse Wheel 15 Metres West of Barbary Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 August 1986. Water wheel.
Horse Wheel 15 Metres West of Barbary Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- woven-railing-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 August 1986
- Type
- Water wheel
- OS grid reference
- TQ 974 612
- Coordinates
- 51.31565, 0.83195
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The horse wheel, located 15 metres west of Barbary Farmhouse, is a 18th-century timber structure used for drawing water. It features a tiled pentice supported by vertical posts at either end of a horizontal beam. The horizontal drum is equipped with a horse beam and includes a pulley mechanism at the left end.
Local climate
Horse Wheel 15 Metres West of Barbary Farmhouse 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 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% 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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