Barn to North of Ryecroft Cottage Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. Barn.

Barn to North of Ryecroft Cottage Farmhouse

WRENN ID
iron-tallow-reed
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Peak District National Park
Constituency
High Peak MP: Jon Pearce (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Barn
Address
Barn to North of Ryecroft Cottage Farmhouse, Townmead Lane, Thornhill, High Peak
OS grid reference
SK 197 836
Coordinates
53.34945, -1.7053
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a 17th-century cruck barn located to the north of Ryecroft Cottage Farmhouse in Thornhill. The barn is constructed from rubble gritstone, partly drystone, and features stone slate and Welsh slate roofs. There is a 19th-century outshut attached to the south side and a corrugated iron barn on the north side. The barn has angle quoins, with the lower ones being significantly larger. There are irregular openings added later. Inside, the barn contains three cruck trusses, which include collars, tie beams, a ridge piece, purlins, and windbraces.

Local climate

Barn to North of Ryecroft Cottage Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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