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

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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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