Higher Ashen Clough Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 April 1984. Barn. 3 related planning applications.
Higher Ashen Clough Barn
- WRENN ID
- night-lime-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Peak District National Park
- Constituency
- High Peak MP: Jon Pearce (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 April 1984
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Higher Ashen Clough Barn, Maynestone Road, Chinley, Buxworth and Brownside, High Peak, SK23 6AH
- OS grid reference
- SK 044 845
- Coordinates
- 53.35771, -1.93446
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Higher Ashen Clough Barn is a 17th-century barn located on Maynestone Road in the parish of Chinley, Buxworth and Brownside. The barn is constructed from coursed gritstone rubble and features massive quoins and gritstone dressings, topped with a stone slate roof. It stands two storeys high.
The west elevation, facing the street, has a central doorcase with a chamfered quoined surround and a massive lintel. To the south, there is an inserted door with a flush surround, and above it, an opening leads to the hayloft. The south wall is marked by ventilation slits. Inside, the barn has two queen strut trusses and massive purlins.
Local climate
Higher Ashen Clough Barn sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 55 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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