The Barn and Fives Wall, 10 Metres North of Well House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 January 1985. A C17 Barn.
The Barn and Fives Wall, 10 Metres North of Well House
- WRENN ID
- wild-pillar-umber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 January 1985
- Type
- Barn
- OS grid reference
- ST 685 259
- Coordinates
- 51.03178, -2.45033
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Barn and Fives Wall, located 10 metres north of Well House, is a barn and fives wall dating from the 18th and 19th centuries. It is constructed of local stone rubble with some ashlar dressings and features a plain clay tile roof over stone slate base courses on the south side. The barn consists of five bays and has a door along with two small shuttered windows, which are possibly from the 18th century, in the north wall. The south wall contains various later openings and is supported by one raked and two stepped buttresses. The east wall of the barn rises higher and is reinforced with diagonal buttresses that have offsets and tiled coping. This section may date back to the 17th century, but local tradition suggests it was built by or for French prisoners who were allowed to use the former Windmill Inn to the east, which is not included in the listing, between 1805 and 1815. It was intended for the Basque game of pelota.
Local climate
The Barn and Fives Wall, 10 Metres North of Well House receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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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