Barn at Su 4950 8962 is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 May 1988. A C17 Barn.
Barn at Su 4950 8962
- WRENN ID
- slow-lintel-grove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Constituency
- Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 May 1988
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Barn at Su 4950 8962, Townsend, Harwell
- OS grid reference
- SU 494 896
- Coordinates
- 51.60333, -1.28671
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a barn located in Harwell Townsend, dating from the mid-17th century, with later alterations. It features a 19th-century brick plinth and large timber framing, covered with weatherboarding and a corrugated asbestos roof. The roof is half-hipped on the right side and hipped with a catslide on the left. The barn has four bays and is aisled at the rear. There are double plank doors positioned to the right of the center. Inside, the barn has a double Queen-post roof with wind braces.
Local climate
Barn at Su 4950 8962 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 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 51% 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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