Granary Approximately 5 Metres East of Spice's Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 1967. Granary.
Granary Approximately 5 Metres East of Spice's Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- riven-gateway-sage
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 December 1967
- Type
- Granary
- OS grid reference
- TL 730 295
- Coordinates
- 51.93709, 0.51665
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The granary, now used as an office and garage, dates from the early 16th century. It is timber framed, weatherboarded, and plastered, with a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. The building consists of two bays aligned northwest to southeast, facing southeast, and features a front wall that is sharply angled to align with the road. Originally, the granary extended further to the rear, but it now has a single-storey lean-to extension at the back, roofed with corrugated clay tiles over corrugated iron. The structure is two storeys high and has one 20th-century casement window on the first floor, along with garage doors. The posts are jowled at half-height and at the tops, and the heavy close studding includes curved tension braces that are trenched to the outside. Inside, there are chamfered binding and bridging beams, with plain joists of horizontal section that are jointed to them using soffit tenons with diminished haunches; some of these joists have been renewed. There are unglazed windows at both levels, with some featuring diamond mullions and grooves for sliding shutters. A blocked original doorway with a straight head is located in the right return wall near the front corner. The roof features crownposts with axial braces.
Local climate
Granary Approximately 5 Metres East of Spice's Farmhouse 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 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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