Barn approximately 40 metres south-west of Great Warley Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 1967. Barn.

Barn approximately 40 metres south-west of Great Warley Hall

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 December 1967
Type
Barn
Address
Barn approximately 40 metres south-west of Great Warley Hall, CM3 2BJ
OS grid reference
TL 762 180
Coordinates
51.8336, 0.55594
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This barn, located approximately 40 metres south-west of Great Warley Hall, dates back to the 15th century and has been altered in the 20th century. It is timber framed and weatherboarded, with a roof made of corrugated iron. The barn consists of five bays arranged in a north-south direction, featuring two aisles and a midstrey on the east side. There is a small outshut at the north end. The roof is hipped at the south end and hipped with a gablet at the north end, which creates a catslide over the outshut. The roof of the midstrey leans against the main roof.

Architectural details include jowled arcade posts and wallposts, heavy studding with curved braces that are trenched to the outside, edge-halved and bridled scarfs in the arcade plates, and arched braces to the tiebeams and arcade plates. The barn has a crownpost roof with axial bracing, which retains the structure of the original gablet hip at both ends, although the rafters at the north end have been replaced with softwood, eliminating the gablet externally. The midstrey is a 17th-century addition that originally had a pitched roof but has been re-roofed as a lean-to, likely when the thatch, recorded in 1960, was replaced by corrugated iron.

Local climate

Barn approximately 40 metres south-west of Great Warley Hall 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 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% 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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