Barn at Alton Priors Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 October 1987. A Early C19 Barn.
Barn at Alton Priors Farm
- WRENN ID
- third-corridor-aspen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- East Wiltshire MP: Danny Kruger (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 October 1987
- Type
- Barn
- OS grid reference
- SU 110 623
- Coordinates
- 51.35969, -1.84289
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The barn at Alton Priors Farm is a Grade II listed building dating from the early 19th century. It originally served as a barn and smithy but is now used as a workshop. The structure is timber framed and features weatherboarding with a slate roof. It consists of seven bays, including aisles, with the central threshing bay being wider than the others. The aisle posts rest on dwarf brick walls, some of which have been repaired. Curved braces support the arcade plates and heavy tie beams, while small struts are present on the principal rafters and collars. The outer posts of the narrow aisle are jowled. In the penultimate western bay, there is a freestanding brick forge with two hearths, and the aisle bays are equipped with work benches. The workshop contains bellows, quenching tanks, an anvil, blacksmith's tools, and two hand-operated vertical drills. The eastern bays have been divided off to serve as an engineering workshop.
Local climate
Barn at Alton Priors Farm receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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