Barn Approximately 80 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. Barn.

Barn Approximately 80 Metres North West of Bluegate Hall Farmhouse

WRENN ID
lapsed-thatch-evening
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 May 1979
Type
Barn
OS grid reference
TL 686 298
Coordinates
51.94115, 0.45281
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This barn, located approximately 80 metres north-west of Bluegate Hall Farmhouse, dates back to the early 17th century. It is timber framed and weatherboarded, with a thatched roof. The barn consists of eight bays arranged in a north-east to south-west direction, featuring an aisle to the north-west and two hipped midstreys to the south-east. There are lean-to extensions on either side of the midstreys, covered with corrugated iron. The structure includes jowled posts, braces to the arcade plate, and tiebeams with irregular curvature, along with primary straight bracing in the walls and a clasped purlin roof. The aisle has been rebuilt in the early 19th century to a greater height and lower pitch, but the rest of the frame remains intact.

Local climate

Barn Approximately 80 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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