Barn About 50 Metres to Rear of Compton House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 October 1985. Barn.
Barn About 50 Metres to Rear of Compton House
- WRENN ID
- eastward-belfry-aspen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 October 1985
- Type
- Barn
- OS grid reference
- ST 616 415
- Coordinates
- 51.1718, -2.55023
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a barn located about 50 metres behind Compton House, dating from the early 19th century. It is constructed from coursed and squared rubble with dressed quoins and features a slate roof with coped verges and finials. The barn is two storeys high and has two door openings on the ground floor facing the road, both with plank doors. On the first floor, there are two circular pitching eyes set in dressed stone surrounds, along with a central divided plank door also in a dressed stone surround. Access to the first floor is provided by a flight of external rubble steps. There are single storey hipped roof outshuts on both the left and right sides of the barn.
Local climate
Barn About 50 Metres to Rear of Compton House receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer 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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