Barn with Horse Engine Shed at Manor Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. Barn.

Barn with Horse Engine Shed at Manor Farm

WRENN ID
rusted-attic-harvest
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wiltshire
Constituency
Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
Country
England
Type
Barn
Address
Barn with Horse Engine Shed at Manor Farm, the Strand, Steeple Ashton
OS grid reference
ST 907 571
Coordinates
51.31314, -2.13355
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The building is a barn with a horse engine shed located at Manor Farm, dating from the late 19th century. It is constructed of coursed rubble stone and features a Welsh slate roof. The barn consists of seven bays and has opposing central double planked doors with segmental heads and keystones. To the right, there are two tiers of two round-headed slit vents. The polygonal horse engine shed, which is weatherboarded, has iron columns supporting its roof and is attached to an octagonal red brick stack with a moulded stone capping. This stack replaced the horse-driven threshing machine with steam power.

On the left and right sides, there are segmental-headed planked doors for loading at both the ground and upper levels. The rear of the barn is similar to the front but features low double planked doors to the right of the central doors and additional slit vents. Inside, the barn has a seven-bay queen-strut truss roof, and some of the belt-driven iron wheels from the threshing machine are retained along the south wall. This barn is a good example of the transition from horse to steam power in agricultural buildings. It was built as one of a pair of barns, with a matching barn located to the west at Manor Farm.

Local climate

Barn with Horse Engine Shed at Manor Farm receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% 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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