Barn 25 Metres North East of Old Wills Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1988. Barn.
Barn 25 Metres North East of Old Wills Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- slow-pillar-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1988
- Type
- Barn
- OS grid reference
- TL 879 211
- Coordinates
- 51.85704, 0.7274
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a 17th-century barn located 25 metres northeast of Old Wills Farmhouse. It is timber framed and covered with weatherboarding, featuring a roof made of corrugated asbestos and some felt on the roof of the midstrey. The barn has five bays arranged in a northwest-southeast direction, with a midstrey on the southwest side. There is a lean-to extension with a corrugated iron roof in the western angle. The midstrey has large doors, and the winnowing doors below were replaced in the 20th century. High pitching doors are present at the northwest end, and there are gablet hips at both ends and on the midstrey. The barn has jowled posts, heavy studding, arched braces to the tiebeams, and a clasped purlin roof. Part of the structure is inaccessible due to being fully occupied by grain storage bins. It adjoins 20th-century buildings to the northwest and southwest that have no architectural or historic interest.
Local climate
Barn 25 Metres North East of Old Wills Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 660 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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