Barn and Engine House Immediately West of Upper Cheddon Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. Barn.

Barn and Engine House Immediately West of Upper Cheddon Farm

WRENN ID
grey-bronze-heron
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
Country
England
Type
Barn
Address
Barn and Engine House Immediately West of Upper Cheddon Farm, Cheddon Fitzpaine
OS grid reference
ST 231 285
Coordinates
51.05073, -3.09754
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The building is a barn and attached horse-engine house located immediately west of Upper Cheddon Farm, dating from the 18th century. It is constructed of stone rubble and features an asbestos tile roof with gabled ends, hipped over the engine house. The barn has a five-bay layout with a threshing floor in the central bay and a porch on the east front. The exterior of the barn has a symmetrical east front with a large gabled porch at the center, which includes double doors and a boarded gable. There are additional doorways inserted high up in the front wall on either side. At the rear, there is a large doorway in the center that is now boarded over, along with a smaller doorway to the left.

The horse-engine house is attached to the north end of the barn and is open-sided, supported by large stone rubble piers, with the east front pier exhibiting a pronounced batter. Of the five open bays, the two at the back have been blocked. Inside, the barn features a raised floor and an original five-bay roof with tie-beam trusses, butt-purlins, a tenoned diagonally-set ridge-piece, and a complete set of common rafters. The porch roof is also intact. The engine house contains a large tie-beam and butt-purlins supporting the principals, along with intact common rafters.

Local climate

Barn and Engine House Immediately West of Upper Cheddon Farm receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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