Touchway Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Forest of Dean local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 April 1989. Barn. 1 related planning application.

Touchway Barn

WRENN ID
gilded-clay-wagtail
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Forest of Dean
Constituency
Forest of Dean MP: Matt Bishop (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 April 1989
Type
Barn
Address
Touchway Barn, Hewelsfield and Brockweir, GL15 6UL
OS grid reference
SO 573 019
Coordinates
51.71465, -2.61823
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Touchway Barn is an 18th-century field barn located in Hewelsfield. It is constructed of random rubble with dressed quoins and features a slate roof. The building has a rectangular shape with a steeply pitched roof, and it includes opposed cart entries and threshing doors. There are some slate vents and three tiers of slit vents on each gable wall, along with hay loading doors in the gables above. Inside, the barn has a five-bay roof supported by collar and tie principal rafter trusses, with a queen post truss in the center; the purlins and rafters are all intact. This barn is notable for being an unaltered and virtually complete 18th-century field barn, which is unusual in the Forest of Dean.

Local climate

Touchway Barn receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% 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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