Barn at Wappingthorn Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Horsham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 April 2005. Barn.
Barn at Wappingthorn Farm
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-basalt-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Horsham
- Constituency
- Arundel and South Downs MP: Andrew Griffith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 April 2005
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Barn at Wappingthorn Farm, Steyning
- OS grid reference
- TQ 173 135
- Coordinates
- 50.90956, -0.33218
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The barn at Wappingthorn Farm is a Grade II listed building designed by Maxwell Ayrton FRIBA for Sir Arthur Howard between 1929 and 1930 as part of a model dairy farm. The barn features six concrete columns on both the north and south sides, with wooden lintels creating five open-sided bays. The rest of the structure, including the tops of the north and south sides, the east and west ends, and the roof, is metal-framed and clad in corrugated asbestos. The concrete columns are made from a well-compacted mix of concrete, showing the lines from the two feet by six inch lift used in their construction. This barn is notable for its innovative use of concrete in architectural design, rather than just for structural purposes, marking it as a significant example of Inter-War agricultural architecture.
Local climate
Barn at Wappingthorn Farm receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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