Shelter Shed Approximately 60 Metres North West of Bluegate Hall Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 May 1979. Shelter shed.
Shelter Shed Approximately 60 Metres North West of Bluegate Hall Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- grim-bonework-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 May 1979
- Type
- Shelter shed
- OS grid reference
- TL 687 297
- Coordinates
- 51.94097, 0.45286
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The shelter shed, located approximately 60 metres north-west of Bluegate Hall Farmhouse, is an early 19th-century structure that has been converted into a range of pigsties. Originally listed as a cartshed range, it is built from red brick and flint rubble, topped with a thatched roof. The shed features eight bays that extend southeast from the southwest end of an aisled barn, curving northwards at the opposite end to enclose a stockyard that was originally open to the northeast. It is a single-storey building with a half-hipped roof at the eastern end. The rear wall consists of twelve brick piers and five narrower intermediate piers, with panels of uncoursed flint rubble between them, along with red brick courses at both the lower and upper levels.
Local climate
Shelter Shed Approximately 60 Metres North West of Bluegate Hall 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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