Barn and Adjoining Workshop, Callow Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Forest of Dean local planning authority area, England. Barn and workshop.
Barn and Adjoining Workshop, Callow Farm
- WRENN ID
- blind-remnant-sienna
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Forest of Dean
- Constituency
- Forest of Dean MP: Matt Bishop (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Barn and workshop
- OS grid reference
- SO 721 312
- Coordinates
- 51.97904, -2.40672
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The barn and adjoining workshop at Callow Farm is a late 17th-century structure that has undergone minor alterations in the late 19th century. The stables were built in 1870 for the Beauchamp Estate, as indicated by a datestone. The barn features small panel timber framing set on a rubble stone plinth, with inset boards below and woven wattle above. The gables are weatherboarded, and the roof is covered with corrugated iron.
This six-bay barn includes two equally spaced threshing floors and has an eight-bay stable built off one end. Due to the slope of the land, the threshing floors are elevated above the yard, with stone thresholds and double, diagonally-boarded doors at the eaves. The framing consists of four panels high. Inside, the right threshing floor is boarded while the left is stone paved. The main posts have heavy jowls and are square cut at the bottom, with long braces connecting the main posts to the cross sills and center posts on either side of the threshing floors, except for the left side of the right-hand floor where the brace has been removed. The barn features tie-beam trusses with double angle struts, two pairs of purlins, and a square ridge.
A loft has been inserted in the left bay, and part of the ground floor has been lowered to yard level, with a door in the gable. The stable on the left has a brick causeway at the front. On the right side, there is a glazed window, to the left are double sliding doors, two glazed windows, and a single sliding door. The left end has a boarded door with a window on either side, featuring a hit and miss shutter below and glass above. All openings, except for the double door, have chamfered brick edges and cambered brick heads. Internally, the right section has been converted into a workshop and consists of four bays, while the left end has three bays with scissor trusses and one pair of purlins, along with a plank ridge. There is a single-bay, brick-walled section in between, with a door to the right and harness hooks. This building forms a group with the farmhouse and cow housing nearby.
Local climate
Barn and Adjoining Workshop, Callow Farm receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 69% 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 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% 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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