Barn at Oakhurst Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Chichester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 February 2007. Barn.
Barn at Oakhurst Farm
- WRENN ID
- ghost-cloister-sienna
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chichester
- Constituency
- Arundel and South Downs MP: Andrew Griffith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 February 2007
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Barn at Oakhurst Farm, Oakhurst Lane, Loxwood, RH14 0QR
- OS grid reference
- TQ 032 328
- Coordinates
- 51.08553, -0.52709
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The barn at Oakhurst Farm is a mid-18th century structure that incorporates some earlier timbers. It features a 19th century brick cattle shed attached to the southwest side, which is not considered of special interest. The barn is timber-framed, built on a brick and stone plinth, and is clad in weatherboarding with half-hipped tiled roofs.
The barn has a four-bay design with outshots to the northeast and southwest, creating a T-shaped plan. Both the northeast and southwest sides have cart entrances, which have been later replaced by weatherboarding. The southwest side, facing the farmyard, includes a four-light metal-framed casement window inserted above the cart entrance. The part of the southwest side that is covered by an outshot retains some old wide weatherboarding.
Inside, the wall frame consists mainly of straight upright posts, a staggered midrail, and diagonal corner braces, with some reused timbers. The tie beams feature slightly curved tension braces, and the roof structure includes collar beams with trenched purlins and rafters with a ridgepiece.
Historically, Oakhurst Farm was part of the Loxwood Hall estate and served as a main steading owned by the King family from around 1600 to 1900. The barn is depicted on the First Edition Ordnance Survey map of 1875. It is a substantially intact mid-18th century barn that is part of a group of farm buildings of similar age, including the farmhouse.
Local climate
Barn at Oakhurst Farm receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% 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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