Poorhouse Barn the Old Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1975. Former barn, house.
Poorhouse Barn the Old Barn
- WRENN ID
- secret-plinth-laurel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 July 1975
- Type
- Former barn, house
- Address
- Poorhouse Barn the Old Barn, Spring Street, Wool
- OS grid reference
- SY 846 865
- Coordinates
- 50.67871, -2.21837
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Barn, also known as Poorhouse Barn, is a former barn that has been converted into two houses. It dates back to the 18th century. The building features walls that are part plastered, part stone, and part brick, topped with a tiled roof. It stands two storeys high and has a large central cart porch that projects outward and has a hipped roof. The lower section of the cart porch is glazed and supported by heavy timber mullions, while the upper part is weatherboarded and includes a hardwood casement window. On either side of the cart porch, there are single-storey porches with tiled roofs. The ground and first floors have modern hardwood casement windows.
Local climate
Poorhouse Barn the Old Barn receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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