Black Barn Approximately 60 Metres South of Place Farmhouse and Adjacent to Road is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1984. Barn.
Black Barn Approximately 60 Metres South of Place Farmhouse and Adjacent to Road
- WRENN ID
- ruined-facade-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1984
- Type
- Barn
- OS grid reference
- TL 852 440
- Coordinates
- 52.06427, 0.70137
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Black Barn is a barn located approximately 60 metres south of Place Farmhouse and adjacent to the road. It dates from the 16th or 17th century and is constructed with a timber frame and weatherboarding, topped with a corrugated iron roof. The barn is aisled and likely consists of five bays. It features jowled storey posts, arched braces to the tie beams, and framed braces to the aisles. The roof is supported by side purlins, showcasing good quality construction. At the time of the survey, the barn was fully used for straw storage, limiting the view of its interior.
Local climate
Black Barn Approximately 60 Metres South of Place Farmhouse and Adjacent to Road sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% 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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