Barn 20 Yards South of Great Norwood is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 November 1984. Barn.

Barn 20 Yards South of Great Norwood

WRENN ID
solemn-hearth-heron
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Swale
Constituency
Sittingbourne and Sheppey MP: Kevin McKenna (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 November 1984
Type
Barn
OS grid reference
TQ 876 660
Coordinates
51.3628, 0.69398
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a 17th-century barn located 20 yards south of Great Norwood. It features a timber frame set on a brick plinth and is clad with weatherboard. The barn has a hipped roof made of corrugated iron and a shallow sloping central entry. Inside, there are four bays with aisles, passing shores to the arcade posts, and arched bracing to the tie-beams. The roof structure includes clasped purlins with diminished principals and wind bracing.

Local climate

Barn 20 Yards South of Great Norwood 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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