Black Bushes Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 December 1985. Barn. 2 related planning applications.
Black Bushes Barn
- WRENN ID
- haunted-loggia-lichen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Constituency
- Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 December 1985
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Black Bushes Barn, the Ridgeway, Wantage, OX12 8LX
- OS grid reference
- SU 397 843
- Coordinates
- 51.55621, -1.42794
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an early 18th-century barn located south of Wantage on the Ridgeway. The barn is constructed of Flemish bond brick with flared headers and has an old tile roof. It follows a 3-bay aisle plan with a central threshing floor. Ventilation slits are located on either side of a hipped porch roof, which now has 20th-century doors. The interior features posts braced to tie beams and wall plates. It also has a 3-bay queen-post roof with clasped purlins. To the left of the barn is an L-shaped, 3 by 4 bay shelter shed facing the rear, with 20th-century weatherboarding over a timber frame on a brick plinth and an old tile roof. This shelter shed also contains a queen-post truss with clasped purlins.
Local climate
Black Bushes Barn receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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