Barn, at North West Corner of Farmyard is a Grade II* listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1956. Barn.
Barn, at North West Corner of Farmyard
- WRENN ID
- kindled-steeple-birch
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1956
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Barn, at North West Corner of Farmyard, Poxwell
- OS grid reference
- SY 741 841
- Coordinates
- 50.65656, -2.36729
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a late 16th-century barn located at the north west corner of the farmyard at Poxwell Manor Farm. The barn features squared rubble walls and a clay tile roof with stone slates at the eaves. Both the north and south ends are gabled, adorned with plain copings and finials. The west porch has a hipped roof, while the larger east porch is two storeys high and gabled.
On the west wall, there is a blocked doorway with chamfered jambs and a four-centred head. The south end wall includes a small window with two centred lights set in a rectangular recess, topped by a quatrefoil with sunk spandrels, all carved from a single stone, likely reused from an earlier 16th-century building.
Inside, the roof is supported by five trusses. Four of these are of the jointed raised cruck type, with the lower parts of the cruck blades resting on short timber lengths built into the walls. The fifth truss is constructed in two tiers; the main jointed crucks do not extend to the apex but are continued by secondary crucks that stand on a collar. The dates 1772 and 1773 scratched into the stonework may indicate when repairs to the roof were made.
Local climate
Barn, at North West Corner of Farmyard 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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