Riverhouse Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Elmbridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 January 1989. Barn, community centre. 1 related planning application.
Riverhouse Barn
- WRENN ID
- graven-transept-gilt
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Elmbridge
- Constituency
- Esher and Walton MP: Monica Harding (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 January 1989
- Type
- Barn, community centre
- Address
- Riverhouse Barn, Manor Road, KT12 2PF
- OS grid reference
- TQ 099 668
- Coordinates
- 51.39009, -0.42158
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Riverhouse Barn is a barn that has been converted into a community centre. It likely dates from the early 18th century, with a roof tile dated 1721. The building features a timber frame with 20th-century weatherboarding on a rebuilt brick plinth and has a clay pantile roof. It consists of five bays, with an added side outshut on the right and an additional bay on the left. The central midstrey has a hipped roof and a double board door, while each side has 20th-century paired dark-glazed double doors. The outshut on the right includes a board door, and the added bay on the left has corrugated iron walls and roof, a panelled door, and a four-pane window with another above that breaks the eaves and rises as a gabled dormer. There is a stack at the junction with the barn. At the rear, there is an opposing cart entry with a double door. The addition on the right features a six-pane ground-floor window and a dormer above, similar to the left. The right return has a 20th-century two-light six-pane window in the gable.
Inside, the barn has a restored brick plinth and a restored timber frame with tall rectangular panels. The posts are unjowelled and have straight braces down to the mid rail and up to the tie-beams. The roof trusses are queen-strut, clasping through the purlins, and the old rafters show carpenter's marks, with later raking wind braces at the ends. The dated roof tile was found during the restoration work.
Local climate
Riverhouse Barn sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% 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 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% 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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