Manor Farm Barns, Facing Main Entrance and Garden of Manor Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 June 1952. Barn. 1 related planning application.

Manor Farm Barns, Facing Main Entrance and Garden of Manor Farmhouse

WRENN ID
endless-chimney-barley
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cotswold
Constituency
South Cotswolds MP: Dr Roz Savage (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 June 1952
Type
Barn
Address
Manor Farm Barns, Facing Main Entrance and Garden of Manor Farmhouse, Kempsford Village
OS grid reference
SU 162 964
Coordinates
51.66695, -1.76699
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Manor Farm Barns are two adjoining barns dating from the mid-17th century. They are constructed of coursed rubble stone on a moulded plinth, with quoins. The west side of both barns features a slate roof, while the lower barn has a corrugated asbestos roof on the east side, and the higher barn has a stone slate roof on its east side. The lower barn to the north has a coped verge with roll moulding and a finial at the north end, along with the same moulded coping along the ridge.

The barns have three stone Tudor archways with chamfered quoins and lintels, and possibly an original inner door frame at the furthest north archway. There is a two-light stone mullion window on the far left, a three-light window approximately in the center, and a single-light window towards the right-hand end. Additionally, there is a window and door with a timber lintel and double doors to the right of center, framed in chamfered stone. The adjoining barn maintains the same unbroken plinth to the end and features two rows of square vents on the front, with a flush cart entry left of center that has a projecting additional lean-to roof. The interiors are not accessible.

These barns are depicted in Kip's engraving of Kempsford Manor from 1700 and were likely built around the same time as the house constructed by the Thynne family in the 1630s.

Local climate

Manor Farm Barns, Facing Main Entrance and Garden of Manor Farmhouse receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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