Barn on Driveway Entrance to Spargrove Manor is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 February 1988. Barn.
Barn on Driveway Entrance to Spargrove Manor
- WRENN ID
- open-vault-tarn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 February 1988
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Barn on Driveway Entrance to Spargrove Manor, Batcombe
- OS grid reference
- ST 671 380
- Coordinates
- 51.14045, -2.47134
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a barn located at the driveway entrance to Spargrove Manor, dating from 1737, as indicated by the incised initials and date on a doorway jamb. The barn is constructed of rubble with freestone dressings and features coped verges and an asbestos sheeting roof. It has a rectangular shape with gabled porches on each long side. There are breather openings with plain surrounds and door openings to the porches that have freestone jambs and plank doors. Inside, the barn has a simple tie-beam roof, although there may be earlier carpentry that remains.
Local climate
Barn on Driveway Entrance to Spargrove Manor receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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