Barn on South Side of Foldyard at Orchard Portman Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 February 1986. Barn.
Barn on South Side of Foldyard at Orchard Portman Farm
- WRENN ID
- hidden-porch-meadow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 February 1986
- Type
- Barn
- OS grid reference
- ST 245 213
- Coordinates
- 50.98649, -3.07618
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The barn on the south side of the foldyard at Orchard Portman Farm is a semi-detached structure that dates from the early to mid-18th century. It was reroofed in the mid-19th century and has undergone minor alterations in the late 20th century. The barn is constructed of red brick in English bond with a plinth and features a slate roof. The porch has a gabled roof that has been altered to a mansard style.
The barn's layout includes a porch facing north towards the foldyard, with the roof extending west to connect with a covered way leading to a mid-19th century range of buildings that are not included in this listing. The barn consists of ten or eleven bays and has a central two-storey porch with a square-headed opening. There are square-headed doorways at the end bays to the right and left of the porch, as well as diaper pattern ventilation holes with long slits below on the facade. A loft opening is present on the west gable end, and there are two tall stepped brick buttresses on the rear elevation, which are contemporary with the building.
The interior is largely obscured by machinery but features a king-post roof. This barn is all that remains of the earlier Orchard Portman farm, which was demolished and rebuilt in the mid-19th century when Orchard Portman House was also razed. Despite some alterations, it is a good example of an 18th-century brick barn.
Local climate
Barn on South Side of Foldyard at Orchard Portman Farm receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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