Barn to South East of Somerton Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 November 1987. Barn.
Barn to South East of Somerton Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- gilded-mantel-thyme
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 November 1987
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Barn to South East of Somerton Farmhouse, Blisland
- OS grid reference
- SX 146 733
- Coordinates
- 50.53056, -4.61709
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a barn located to the southeast of Somerton Farmhouse, dating from the early 19th century. It is constructed from stone rubble, granite, and moorstone, and features a corrugated asbestos roof with gable ends. The barn has a rectangular plan, with a shippon on the ground floor and a threshing floor above, situated on a slope that descends to the left.
The building is two storeys high, with the lower side on the left. There are two doors on the ground floor, and a central external stone rubble stair with granite treads leading up to the threshing floor. The ground floor has a plank door, and there are openings in the lower left gable end on both the ground and first floors. There is also an opposing door for the threshing floor at the rear.
Inside, the barn features ceiling beams and roof structures that date from the late 19th and 20th centuries. The barn is part of a group with Somerton Farmhouse.
Local climate
Barn to South East of Somerton Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% 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 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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