Guys Villa Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 2003. Threshing barn.
Guys Villa Barn
- WRENN ID
- young-buttress-mint
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 2003
- Type
- Threshing barn
- Address
- Guys Villa Barn, Main Street, Long Preston, North Yorkshire
- OS grid reference
- SD 830 583
- Coordinates
- 54.02111, -2.25981
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Guys Villa Barn is a threshing barn built in 1708. It is constructed from coursed rubble stone with ashlar dressings and features stone slate roofs. The barn is a single storey and has large irregular quoins at the corners and around all openings.
The main front, facing south-west, has a projecting section on the left that includes the main threshing opening. There is a large central cart entrance with a timber lintel. To the left of this entrance is a single doorway with a 19th-century stable door, and to the right is a broad window opening that is now boarded up. A set-back wing to the right features an upper loft doorway.
Inside, the barn contains five original queen-post timber roof trusses with double staggered purlins. One of the trusses has a tie beam inscribed with 'R E I 1708'. The three north-western trusses are notable for their unusual pendants, which project downwards from the apex of each truss and connect through the short collar beams.
Local climate
Guys Villa Barn sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,320 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% 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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