Barn Approximately 20 Metres North of Number 211 (Kennington Manor House) is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 June 1987. Barn.
Barn Approximately 20 Metres North of Number 211 (Kennington Manor House)
- WRENN ID
- solemn-paling-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Constituency
- Oxford West and Abingdon MP: Layla Moran (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 June 1987
- Type
- Barn
- OS grid reference
- SP 523 023
- Coordinates
- 51.71772, -1.24406
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a barn located approximately 20 meters north of Number 211, Kennington Manor House. It dates from the early 17th century and is constructed of uncoursed limestone rubble, featuring ashlar quoins, dressings, and random blocks. The left bays are covered with weatherboarding over a timber frame. The barn has a gabled thatch roof and a four-bay plan, with a threshing floor situated in the second bay from the right. There are 20th-century plank doors with old strap hinges and a timber lintel above the rear doors. The barn includes splayed ventilation slits. Inside, there is a four-bay collar-truss roof with purlins clasped between principals of slight scantling and canted under-principals, along with braced and jowled posts in the timber-framed section on the left.
Local climate
Barn Approximately 20 Metres North of Number 211 (Kennington Manor House) 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 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% 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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