Town Head Barn is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 June 1988. Barn.
Town Head Barn
- WRENN ID
- floating-basalt-spindle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 June 1988
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Town Head Barn, Clapham Cum Newby
- OS grid reference
- SD 729 700
- Coordinates
- 54.12562, -2.41534
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Town Head Barn is a 17th-century barn dated 1675, constructed from slobbered rubble with stone dressings and a stone slate roof. It has two storeys and two bays. The waggon entrance, located to the right of the centre, features a chamfered surround and a segmented head, with a moulded keystone that is dated and inscribed: R T I. The entrance has plank doors. Massive corbels are present, notched to support a hood, which has been replaced in the 20th century. To the right, there is another entrance with a chamfered surround and a flat head, leading to a plank stable door. The upper floor includes loft entrances on both the left and right, each with slate lintels and plank doors. The front of the barn also has several breathers, most of which are now blocked, and a left-hand kneeler. There are two extensions to the right; the first has a 20th-century window and a circa 17th-century entrance with a chamfered surround, along with a similar surround for a loft entrance that is slightly lower than the main barn's loft. On the extreme right, there is a 19th-century lean-to.
Local climate
Town Head Barn sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,330 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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