New Park Barn Approximately 75 Metres East of Fox Covert Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 November 1984. Barn.
New Park Barn Approximately 75 Metres East of Fox Covert Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- buried-chancel-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Daventry MP: Stuart Andrew (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 November 1984
- Type
- Barn
- OS grid reference
- SP 753 669
- Coordinates
- 52.29531, -0.89632
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
New Park Barn, located approximately 75 metres east of Fox Covert Farmhouse, is a barn dating from around 1770. It is constructed from squared coursed limestone and features a slate roof. The barn has a central cart entrance that is adorned with brick dressings and is flanked by turrets, which were originally castellated and have a blank arcade at ground level. Additionally, there are slit ventilators present. This barn was built as a folly by the Earl of Strafford and Wentworth.
Local climate
New Park Barn Approximately 75 Metres East of Fox Covert Farmhouse 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 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% 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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