St Leonard's Barn is a Grade I listed building in the New Forest National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 October 1959. A C14 Barn.
St Leonard's Barn
- WRENN ID
- other-bailey-moth
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- New Forest National Park
- Constituency
- New Forest East MP: Sir Julian Lewis (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 October 1959
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- St Leonard's Barn, Beaulieu
- OS grid reference
- SZ 406 981
- Coordinates
- 50.78162, -1.4248
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St Leonard's Barn is a Grade I listed structure located in Beaulieu, dating back to the 14th century, with a 16th-century barn built inside it. The barn is constructed from coursed rubble stone, featuring some stone dressings, and has an old plain tile roof covering the replacement barn. Originally, the barn was likely the largest in Britain, measuring approximately 70 meters long and 33 meters wide, consisting of a seven-bay aisled design with porches on either side of the central bay.
What remains of the original barn includes the entire east gable and north wall, most of the west gable, and the eastern part of the south wall. The replacement barn is half the width of the original and occupies the western four bays, utilizing the north wall and west gable, with stones from the original barn repurposed for the east and south walls.
On the north elevation, facing St Leonards Grange, the end bay corresponds to the center bay of the original barn and features buttresses that are remnants of the porch, along with a large segmental-headed doorway with double doors and additional double doors in another bay, as well as on the 16th-century south wall. The north wall includes buttresses between the bays, remnants of the south wall, and the 16th-century south wall. The 16th-century barn has a half-hip on one end. The original gables are supported by tall buttresses with high-set pointed lancets and put-log holes. The roof of the 16th-century barn is constructed using queen-strut design with timbers from the original barn. The site is designated as a Scheduled Ancient Monument.
Local climate
St Leonard's Barn receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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