Flint Barn at Downley Farm on the East Side of Farmyard is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 October 1990. Barn.
Flint Barn at Downley Farm on the East Side of Farmyard
- WRENN ID
- hushed-loft-linden
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Wycombe MP: Emma Reynolds (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 October 1990
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Flint Barn at Downley Farm on the East Side of Farmyard, Plomer Green Lane
- OS grid reference
- SU 847 952
- Coordinates
- 51.64995, -0.77683
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Flint Barn at Downley Farm, located on the east side of the farmyard, is a barn that likely dates from the late 18th century and features a later addition. It was built for the Dashwood Estate and is constructed of flint with brick bands, pilaster strips, quoins, and quoined surrounds. The addition includes weatherboard on a brick plinth. The barn has a plain tile roof that is half-hipped at the north end and consists of five bays with a two-way addition at the south end.
There are central opposed cart entries with board doors; the entry on the east side has a gabled, weatherboard midstray, while the west side, facing the yard, features a stable door to the left and a wide blocked entrance on the right. The barn has two tiers of slit vents. The west elevation of the addition includes a stable door flanked by small-pane windows, with two boarded-up openings above.
Inside, the barn has tile beams, with curved principal rafters rising to collars, two tiers of clasped through purlins, intermediate collars, and old rafters, but no ridge-piece. The roof was originally half-hipped at the south end, where the gable was made of weatherboard with a hatch below. This barn is an important building within the farmyard group, which includes the farmhouse dated 1819.
Local climate
Flint Barn at Downley Farm on the East Side of Farmyard sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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