Merry Hill Barn with Attached Shelter-Shed and Yard Walls is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1985. Barn. 2 related planning applications.

Merry Hill Barn with Attached Shelter-Shed and Yard Walls

WRENN ID
strange-crypt-fog
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 May 1985
Type
Barn
Address
Merry Hill Barn with Attached Shelter-Shed and Yard Walls, DT3 4HF
OS grid reference
SY 602 842
Coordinates
50.6567, -2.56324
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Merry Hill Barn, along with an attached shelter-shed and yard walls, dates from the 18th century and was restored in the 20th century. The barn features rubble-stone walls with stone quoins and a half-hipped thatch roof. There is a porch entrance on the south side with projecting jambs and no doors, leading to a through-entrance at the center. The roof structure includes original tie-beams with renewed queen-struts, and there are plank doors on each gable end. The shelter-shed, located 20 meters south of the barn, uses the yard wall as its back wall and has rounded corners. It is supported at the front by five round oak posts with a scarfed plate, and four square posts are positioned inside, halfway to the back wall. The shelter-shed also has a thatch roof. The attached rubble-stone walls with vertical coping-stones connect the barn to the shelter-shed, leading to an entrance to the yard. The wall then curves back to form the west side of the yard and returns to the west gable of the barn.

Local climate

Merry Hill Barn with Attached Shelter-Shed and Yard Walls 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 73% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% 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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