Barn Approximately 20 Metres South West of Whitley House is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 May 1984. A C17 Barn.
Barn Approximately 20 Metres South West of Whitley House
- WRENN ID
- ruined-eave-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 May 1984
- Type
- Barn
- OS grid reference
- TL 721 414
- Coordinates
- 52.0447, 0.50865
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an aisled barn dating from around 1600, with extensions made in the 18th and 19th centuries. It is timber framed and covered with weatherboarding, topped with a roof made of corrugated iron. The barn consists of four bays that are aligned approximately northeast to southwest, featuring a midstrey located in the second bay from the southwest. An additional bay has been added to the northeast. The structure includes jowled posts, arched braces supporting straight tiebeams and arcade plates. The roof is constructed with clasped purlins, and the arcade plates feature edge-halved and bridled scarfs. The walls are reinforced with primary straight bracing.
Local climate
Barn Approximately 20 Metres South West of Whitley House 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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