Byre Approximately 70 Metres West South West of Great Biggins Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1985. A C18 Byre. 3 related planning applications.
Byre Approximately 70 Metres West South West of Great Biggins Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-belfry-brook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1985
- Type
- Byre
- OS grid reference
- TL 688 327
- Coordinates
- 51.96745, 0.45683
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an 18th-century byre located approximately 70 metres west-south-west of Great Biggins Farmhouse. It is constructed with a timber frame, which is plastered and weatherboarded, and has a roof made of corrugated asbestos. The building consists of four bays arranged from east to west, with a lean-to shed at the western end. It features a gambrel roof that is half-hipped at both ends. The structure includes primary straight bracing, face-halved and bladed scarfs in the wall plates, and bolted hanging knees to the tiebeams. The roof is designed with clasped purlins. This byre is listed for its group value as part of a complete farm complex.
Local climate
Byre Approximately 70 Metres West South West of Great Biggins 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 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
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- 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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