The Old Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1952. Barn. 5 related planning applications.
The Old Barn
- WRENN ID
- sharp-frieze-ivy
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cotswold
- Constituency
- North Cotswolds MP: Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 January 1952
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- The Old Barn, Dowdeswell, GL54 4LT
- OS grid reference
- SP 004 191
- Coordinates
- 51.871, -1.99444
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an 18th-century barn, later partly converted into a house and garage/store, with 20th-century additions. The barn is constructed of coursed, squared, and dressed limestone, with a stone slate roof and some artificial slate. It has a rectangular plan with a projecting lean-to porch on the east side, left of a projecting gabled 20th-century extension. A single-storey extension is present to the south gable end, with a single-storey outbuilding with a shallow-pitched roof extending away to the west; a similar extension opposite creates a courtyard in front of the barn. There is a 20th-century lean-to against the barn wall. The west front features a scatter of 20th-century two and three-light casement windows with glazing bars, and a 20th-century plank door. There are 20th-century skylights on both sides of the barn. The west front has one ventilation slit and traces of another. The east wall features further ventilation slits and three pigeon holes with a stone landing and a small gable. A bull's-eye window is located towards the apex of the south gable end. A ventilation slit and a stilted-headed window with glazing bars are found in the gable end facing the road. There are two 20th-century plank garage doors to the right of the gable end. The gable end has slightly stepped coping with a roll-cross saddle. The gable end facing the road and the east side of the barn are prominent features in relation to the road and the garden of The Manor House. The interior was not inspected.
Local climate
The Old Barn 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 lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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 — 1 transaction since 2014
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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