Barn Approximately 20 Metres East of Sewells Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1984. Barn.
Barn Approximately 20 Metres East of Sewells Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-outpost-crow
- 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 795 421
- Coordinates
- 52.04872, 0.61653
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This barn, dating from the 16th century, is located approximately 20 metres east of Sewells Farmhouse in Belchamp Otten. It is constructed with a timber frame and is weatherboarded, featuring a roof clad in corrugated asbestos. The barn has been restored and consists of three aisled bays; one bay is open up to the top plate level, while the other two have stable doors. The walls are supported by through bracing, and it has a side purlin roof construction. The front elevations include tusk tenons.
Local climate
Barn Approximately 20 Metres East of Sewells 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 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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