Tithe Barn, Bourton House is a Grade I listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 January 1985. A Renaissance Barn.
Tithe Barn, Bourton House
- WRENN ID
- sharp-bonework-brook
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Cotswold
- Constituency
- North Cotswolds MP: Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 January 1985
- Type
- Barn
- Period
- Renaissance
- Address
- Tithe Barn, Bourton House, Main Street, Bourton-On-The-Hill
- OS grid reference
- SP 177 324
- Coordinates
- 51.99006, -1.74221
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Tithe Barn at Bourton House is a Grade I listed building, dated and initialled '1570 R. P.' on a stone above the main entrance, indicating it was built for Richard Palmer. The barn is constructed of ashlar limestone with a limestone slate roof and limestone gable end coping. It has a rectangular main body featuring two central projecting entrance porches that face each other. There is a later outshut to the left of the rear porch. The facade is buttressed and has a projecting plinth. The main entrance features a projecting gabled porch with a small 20th-century plank double door that has cover strips, set within a larger wooden infill panel and a flat-chamfered four-centred arch, which includes the dated panel with a stopped hood above. A quatrefoil is positioned above the entrance. There is also a square-headed doorway with a wooden lintel and 20th-century glazing on the right wall of the entrance porch. The gable end coping is slightly stepped and has roll-cross saddles.
Inside, the barn consists of seven bays with original roof timbers that include a tie beam with struts, a collar, and clasped purlins. The stone flagged floor slopes upwards towards the right. A small niche with a flat-chamfered ogee is located in the wall of the main body opposite the front entrance porch, and there is a flat-chamfered square niche in the left wall of the front entrance projection.
Local climate
Tithe Barn, Bourton House receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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