The Great Barn is a Grade II listed building in the South Gloucestershire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 October 1952. A C15/C16 Barn, house. 6 related planning applications.
The Great Barn
- WRENN ID
- salt-tracery-elder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Gloucestershire
- Constituency
- Thornbury and Yate MP: Claire Young (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 October 1952
- Type
- Barn, house
- Address
- The Great Barn, Olveston, BS35 4DU
- OS grid reference
- ST 598 871
- Coordinates
- 51.58187, -2.58136
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Great Barn is a barn that has been converted into a house, dating from the 15th or 16th century, with later alterations. It is built of rubble with stone dressings and features a pantiled roof with raised coped verges and kneelers.
The east elevation has four 20th-century windows on the first floor, a gabled porch with a 20th-century door and window, and a 20th-century window to the right. The south elevation includes a 20th-century door set in a chamfered stone surround with a four-centred arch, a chamfered opening to the right with an iron lattice, and a 20th-century window on the first floor with a drip mould and relieving arch. There is a line indicating the former roof above and a small chamfered opening in the gable with an iron lattice.
On the west elevation, there are four windows, all from the 20th century with relieving arches, except for the second window from the right on the first floor, which has a basket arch and chamfered surround. There is also a small opening in a chamfered surround to the right and a single-storey extension to the north.
Inside, the porch features an inner four-centred arched opening with a chamfered surround. The ground floor has chamfered and stopped beams, while the roof consists of five bays with tie-beams and collars, two rows of purlins, and windbraces in the lower bays.
Local climate
The Great Barn receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
- 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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