Barn Approximately 30 Metres East of Sparrows Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 March 1986. Barn.
Barn Approximately 30 Metres East of Sparrows Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- sheer-banister-dust
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 March 1986
- Type
- Barn
- OS grid reference
- TL 754 145
- Coordinates
- 51.80168, 0.54323
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This barn, located approximately 30 metres east of Sparrows Farmhouse, dates from the early 17th century. It is timber framed and weatherboarded, topped with a thatched roof. The structure consists of five bays aligned north to south, featuring a midstrey on the southwest side. There are open lean-to shelters on each side of the midstrey, which are roofed with red clay 'Roman' tiles. Notable architectural details include jowled posts, heavy studding, primary straight bracing, face-halved and bladed scarfs in the wallplates, and a butt-purlin roof.
Local climate
Barn Approximately 30 Metres East of Sparrows Farmhouse 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 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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