Barn Approximately 30 Metres South South East of Latchleys Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 May 1984. Barn.
Barn Approximately 30 Metres South South East of Latchleys Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- cold-stronghold-plover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 May 1984
- Type
- Barn
- OS grid reference
- TL 671 395
- Coordinates
- 52.02907, 0.43495
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an early 16th-century aisled barn located approximately 30 metres south-southeast of Latchleys Farmhouse. It is timber framed and weatherboarded, with a roof covered in corrugated asbestos. The barn has five bays aligned north-south, with the main entrance originally located to the west of the middle bay, which is now blocked. It is adjacent to a smaller 17th-century barn to the north.
The structure features jowled posts, arched braces connecting to cambered tiebeams and arcade plates, and raking shores beneath the aisle ties to the sills. Curved braces are trenched inside the heavy studding, which was originally filled with wattle and daub but has since been replaced. The arcade plates show edge halved and bridled scarfs, as well as face-halved scarfs that are bladed at one end and housed at the other in the wallplates. The variety of scarf types used in the building is notable, as it reflects the combination of older, well-proven techniques in areas of high stress and newer, more experimental methods in more stable sections. The main span roof has been rebuilt to a lower pitch to accommodate the asbestos cladding.
Local climate
Barn Approximately 30 Metres South South East of Latchleys Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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