Barn 50 Metres South East of Hensting Farmhouse is a Grade II* listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 December 1955. A C15 Barn.

Barn 50 Metres South East of Hensting Farmhouse

WRENN ID
drifting-pinnacle-dew
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
South Downs National Park
Constituency
Winchester MP: Dr Danny Chambers (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 December 1955
Type
Barn
OS grid reference
SU 497 224
Coordinates
50.99918, -1.29294
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a barn located 50 meters southeast of Hensting Farmhouse, dating from the 15th century, with an additional bay added in the 17th century. It features a timber-frame structure with dressed stone, rubble flint, and some brick infill, topped with a thatched roof that has tiled porches and eaves. The barn consists of nine bays with an added bay. On the farmyard side, there are two bays in from each end of the original barn that have a midstray half-hipped porch. The low walls are only 1.5 meters high, and in the center, there are three bays, with most bays on the far side having 18th-century two and three-light casements. The 17th-century bay has a timber frame with brick infill, lacks an aisle on the barn side, and has a corner cut off, supported by carved brackets for the wallplate. The roof is half-hipped, with the lowest part over the aisles tiled. Inside, there is a queen-post roof with straight braces to the ties and aisle plate, one set of continuous purlins with straight windbraces, and an aisle tie positioned halfway up the main part.

Local climate

Barn 50 Metres South East of Hensting Farmhouse receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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