Barn approximately 40 metres south of Manor Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 January 1985. Barn. 1 related planning application.
Barn approximately 40 metres south of Manor Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-eave-tallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 January 1985
- Type
- Barn
- OS grid reference
- ST 880 200
- Coordinates
- 50.98012, -2.17111
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a 19th-century barn located approximately 40 metres south of Manor Farmhouse in Melbury Abbas. The barn is constructed from coursed, square rubble and features a tiled roof with stone-slate margins in some areas. It has ashlar dressings and a buttressed west porch with a hipped roof. The structure includes narrow ventilation loops and is designed in an L-plan. Inside, it has four bays and retains its original collar-truss roof, which includes two levels of through purlins.
Local climate
Barn approximately 40 metres south of Manor Farmhouse receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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