Barn to West of Pond Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 August 1986. Barn.
Barn to West of Pond Farm
- WRENN ID
- winter-thatch-yew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 August 1986
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Barn to West of Pond Farm, Oak Road, Rivenhall
- OS grid reference
- TL 836 166
- Coordinates
- 51.81829, 0.6636
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The barn located to the west of Pond Farm dates back to the mid-17th century. It is timber framed and features black weatherboarding, with a roof covered in corrugated asbestos sheeting. The structure consists of four bays aligned north-south, with an offset midstrey on the west side and outshots on the rest of the west elevation and part of the east elevation. The storey posts are jowled and supported by straight braces, while the walls are braced with central side girths. The roof has clasped side purlins and bladed scarf joints at the wall plates. The upper midstrey has internal plaster infill, and the south gable end is constructed of brick with a later frame, likely from the 18th century. The roof is hipped at the north end, and the midstrey also has a hipped roof. There is evidence of a former screen between the southernmost bay and bay three, suggesting that this barn may be a truncated remnant of a six-bay barn with two midstreys. This barn is part of a group that includes Pond Farmhouse and a former byre, now a barn, to the south of Pond Farm.
Local climate
Barn to West of Pond Farm sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 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 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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