Shelter Shed Linking Flint and Weatherboard Barns, at North East Corner of Farmyard at Downley Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 October 1990. Shelter shed.
Shelter Shed Linking Flint and Weatherboard Barns, at North East Corner of Farmyard at Downley Farm
- WRENN ID
- roaming-gravel-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Wycombe MP: Emma Reynolds (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 October 1990
- Type
- Shelter shed
- Address
- Shelter Shed Linking Flint and Weatherboard Barns, at North East Corner of Farmyard at Downley Farm, Plomer Green Lane
- OS grid reference
- SU 847 952
- Coordinates
- 51.65011, -0.77684
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The shelter shed at the north-east corner of the farmyard at Downley Farm, dated 'J Goodchild 1853', was built for the Dashwood Estate. It features a timber frame that is mostly open-sided, with some weatherboard cladding on a brick plinth. The roof is made of Welsh slate and is half-hipped at the east end. The structure measures four by two bays and has timber posts resting on chamfered padstones, with base braces. Arched braces support the wall-plates and tie-beams. Inside, there are collared queen-post roof trusses with widely spaced posts, clasped through purlins, and a plank ridge supported on yokes at the trusses. Straight braces are present in the wall framing and roof, and carpenter numbering marks can be found. This shelter shed connects two barns, which are significant components of the farmyard group.
Local climate
Shelter Shed Linking Flint and Weatherboard Barns, at North East Corner of Farmyard at Downley Farm sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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