Barn (Now Menagerie) Circa 60 Metres to North West of Fawley Court is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 June 1976. Menagerie.

Barn (Now Menagerie) Circa 60 Metres to North West of Fawley Court

WRENN ID
tattered-cellar-stoat
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Buckinghamshire
Constituency
Wycombe MP: Emma Reynolds (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 June 1976
Type
Menagerie
OS grid reference
SU 764 843
Coordinates
51.55247, -0.89867
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This building, originally a barn and now a menagerie, is located approximately 60 meters northwest of Fawley Court. It dates from around 1770 and was altered later. The structure was designed by Sambrook Freeman and features chequer brick, with the southern end whitewashed and the rest showing traces of colourwash. It has flat eaves and a hipped slate roof, forming a long single-storey building with an apse at the northern end.

The sides of the building display a shallow blind arcade of semi-circular arches that continues around the apse, with a band course at the impost level. Some of the arches contain arched windows with glazing bars, while others have large double wooden doors. The southern end features three arches: the left arch has an arched window, the center arch contains a thermal window, and between the arches are recessed rectangular panels with roundels above. There are also square ventilation holes below the eaves. Attached to the building are 20th-century sheds. The structure includes unusual shallow trusses designed to cover a wide span using short timbers. An original drawing indicates that only thermal windows were present initially.

Local climate

Barn (Now Menagerie) Circa 60 Metres to North West of Fawley Court 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 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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