Barn and Attached Yard Walls Immediately West of Church of St Peter is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 October 1986. Barn.

Barn and Attached Yard Walls Immediately West of Church of St Peter

WRENN ID
slow-mullion-reed
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 October 1986
Type
Barn
Address
Barn and Attached Yard Walls Immediately West of Church of St Peter, West Knighton
OS grid reference
SY 732 876
Coordinates
50.68747, -2.38057
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a barn dating from the late 18th century, located immediately west of the Church of St Peter in West Knighton. The barn features a rubblestone base with brick walls above, topped with hipped slate roofs and stone slabs at the eaves. There is a large brick porch on the north side with a hipped slate roof, which includes two-leaf plank doors and a cambered brick arch above. A similar brick porch on the south side also has two-leaf plank doors. Inside, the roof is scissor-braced with bolted collars throughout.

Attached to the barn are yard walls that extend for 25 meters by 20 meters, creating a yard to the north. These walls have a rubblestone base and are made of chalk cob, featuring rounded corners. The coping is made of Roman tiles, dating from the 18th or 19th century. This structure is a notable example of cob walling within the context of a farmyard.

Local climate

Barn and Attached Yard Walls Immediately West of Church of St Peter receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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