The Barn 40 Metres South East of Lower Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 April 1961. Barn.
The Barn 40 Metres South East of Lower Farm
- WRENN ID
- iron-turret-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 April 1961
- Type
- Barn
- OS grid reference
- ST 569 215
- Coordinates
- 50.99171, -2.61414
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Barn, located 40 metres southeast of Lower Farm, is a barn that likely dates from the mid-18th century. It is constructed of brick and features a clay tile half hipped roof. The barn has nine bays, with the roof sloping down to a low level at the rear. There are two long slit windows, one positioned above the other, in bays 1, 2, 5, and 6. Bays 3 and 4 contain a three-centred brick arched doorway flanked by stepped buttresses. Bays 7, 8, and 9 are open and supported by a massive timber beam with a three-centre arch on the underside, resting on impost blocks. The roof structure includes queen post trusses with two purlins on each slope. To the west, there is a two-storey 19th-century extension, followed by a 20th-century rendered extension with a corrugated asbestos cement sheet roof. The barn forms a picturesque grouping with Lower Farmhouse.
Local climate
The Barn 40 Metres South East of Lower Farm receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% 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 56% 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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