Large Barn at Countess Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 December 1974. Barn.
Large Barn at Countess Farm
- WRENN ID
- over-steeple-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- East Wiltshire MP: Danny Kruger (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 December 1974
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Large Barn at Countess Farm, Countess Road, Amesbury
- OS grid reference
- SU 153 421
- Coordinates
- 51.17837, -1.78241
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The large barn at Countess Farm, dating from the later 18th century, is currently used as a farm equipment store. It features a timber frame set on brick sills, is weatherboarded, and has a plain tiled roof. The barn consists of seven bays, with a central cartway and a midstrey on the south side. Lean-to sheds have been added to either side and to the east gable end, and there are irregular paned windows. The west gable has 20th-century machinery access doors.
Inside, the barn has jowled posts with straight braces connecting to the wall plate, as well as straight chamfered tie-beams. The roof structure includes queen struts and a collar, a single tier of purlins with wind braces, and horizontal struts between the purlins at the mid-bay point. There are no wall bressumers, and the trusses are numbered from the west, marked on the north side. The roof is half hipped. Graffiti on one of the wall posts includes the inscriptions: TS 178(?)1, WF 1796, WT 1822, and 1842. This barn is part of an important group of later 18th-century farm buildings at Countess Farm.
Local climate
Large Barn at Countess Farm receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier 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, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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