Barn Adjoining South East Corner of Notley Abbey House is a Grade I listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 October 1951. A C13 Barn.

Barn Adjoining South East Corner of Notley Abbey House

WRENN ID
riven-gargoyle-elm
Grade
I
Local Planning Authority
Buckinghamshire
Constituency
Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 October 1951
Type
Barn
OS grid reference
SP 715 091
Coordinates
51.77676, -0.96388
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The building is a barn located at the southeast corner of Notley Abbey House, originally part of a 13th-century frater of the abbey that formed the south side of the cloister. It was rebuilt as a barn in the 17th or 18th century. The structure is made of rubble stone with a tiled roof.

The north elevation, which originally faced the cloister, features a moulded string course that connects the hoods of a blocked doorway near the west end and an arch beyond the east gable. Both have moulded pointed arches with remains of shafting and carved capitals. The east gable wall shows remnants of the vault from the adjoining warming house and a low pointed arch that was once an entry to the undercroft. The south wall is plain but includes a full-height projecting gabled cart entry from the 18th century and a brick lean-to on the east side. The west gable has a door and three windows, all with oak lintels.

Inside, the barn is arranged into six bays, with a partition and floors in the west bay. It features a double purlin roof with curved struts from the tiebeams that support the lower purlin, which in turn carries the upper purlins. At the upper level of the east wall, there is a range of eight small trefoil arches on cables, adorned with stiftleaf capitals, carved spandrels, and a cornice.

Local climate

Barn Adjoining South East Corner of Notley Abbey House 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 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% 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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