The Old Barns is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1985. House. 1 related planning application.
The Old Barns
- WRENN ID
- cold-eave-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Aylesbury MP: Laura Kyrke-Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 January 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Barns, High Street, Whitchurch, HP22 4JA
- OS grid reference
- SP 801 207
- Coordinates
- 51.87965, -0.83666
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Barns is a house incorporating a late medieval barn. A further range was built in the 19th century, and the property was converted and extended in the 20th century. The barn is timber-framed with weatherboard cladding, a rubble stone plinth at the rear, and a whitewashed brick bay on the right side. It has a steeply pitched slate roof. The barn has one storey and an attic, with three bays. Windows are 2- and 3-light wooden casements, with first-floor windows in gabled dormers. A 20th-century double door is located between the left bays. The 19th-century range to the left is of whitewashed brick with a slate roof and similar casements. The barn’s interior features three cruck trusses, with the blades terminating just above the collar.
Local climate
The Old Barns receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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