Barn at Drax House is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1985. Barn. 3 related planning applications.
Barn at Drax House
- WRENN ID
- far-parapet-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- East Wiltshire MP: Danny Kruger (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 July 1985
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Barn at Drax House, Orcheston, SP3 4RL
- OS grid reference
- SU 059 452
- Coordinates
- 51.20638, -1.91594
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A barn dating from the mid-18th century is located at Drax House. It is timber-framed with weatherboarding, set on a brick plinth, and has a corrugated iron half-hipped roof. The barn consists of five bays, with west and east aisles. There are wagon entrances with wooden double doors in the central bay of each side. A roof truss on the north side of the threshing floor bears the initials "ED" and the date 1735. Roof trusses feature tie-beams with tension braces to jowled main posts, raking struts to principals, and collars. The aisles have tie-beams with struts to principals. Unpublished records of the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), Salisbury, document the barn.
Local climate
Barn at Drax House receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 53% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2005
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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