Barn, 17 Metres North of Chicks Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 April 1961. Barn.
Barn, 17 Metres North of Chicks Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- high-barrel-flax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 April 1961
- Type
- Barn
- OS grid reference
- ST 520 138
- Coordinates
- 50.92185, -2.68367
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This barn, located 17 metres north of Chicks Farmhouse, dates back to 1764 and is constructed from local stone rubble with Ham stone dressings. The main roof is covered with corrugated asbestos cement sheets, replacing the original thatch, while extensions feature clay pantiles. The barn is partially two-storey and consists of nine bays. It is plinthed and has four 4-centre arched doorways with labels over them on the east flank, located in bays -1, -3, -5, and -9. There is a small matching doorway over bay -1, and bay -2 features a 2-light transomed 4-centre arched window with 16th-century style tracery, along with upper doors in bays -4 and -7.
On the west flank, there are high doors in a gabled projection in bay -5, and lean-to buildings on either side have catslide roofs, with a variety of old plain windows and doors. The north end includes a 2-bay open shed with a half-hipped clay pantile roof, supported by beam collar trusses with three purlins on each major slope. The south gable features a cinquefoil cusped pointed arch doorway above a concrete block lean-to building, which is not included in the listing. Above this doorway is an oval ventilation hole and a stone plaque that reads 'Built in the Year 1764'. The interior was filled with hay as of August 1983 and was not inspected, but a cider press remains in position in bay -2. Some architectural elements may have been reused from the Church of St. Martin of Tours, where the tower was completed in 1765.
Local climate
Barn, 17 Metres North of Chicks Farmhouse receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% 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 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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- Sale history — 5 transactions since 2000
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