Barn at Bushett Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1985. Barn. 3 related planning applications.
Barn at Bushett Farm
- WRENN ID
- narrow-attic-tarn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1985
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Barn at Bushett Farm, Great Bardfield
- OS grid reference
- TL 672 283
- Coordinates
- 51.92853, 0.43131
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an early 18th-century barn located at Bushett Farm. It is a timber-framed structure, largely weatherboarded with some areas of cement render, and has a corrugated asbestos roof. The barn comprises eight bays aligned north-west to south-east, with two midstreys (internal divisions) towards the south-west. The roof is gambrel-shaped, with a half-hip at each end. The barn is constructed with pegged joints. It features primary straight bracing, short curved braces to the tiebeams, and collars on raking struts.
Local climate
Barn at Bushett Farm sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2018
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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