Complex of Farm Buildings Approximately 40 Metres South East of Over Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 August 1986. Farm buildings.
Complex of Farm Buildings Approximately 40 Metres South East of Over Hall
- WRENN ID
- buried-baluster-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 August 1986
- Type
- Farm buildings
- OS grid reference
- TL 862 307
- Coordinates
- 51.94439, 0.70888
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This complex of farm buildings, located approximately 40 metres south-east of Over Hall, dates from the 18th and 19th centuries. The buildings are mainly timber framed and weatherboarded, with some sections constructed of red brick in English bond or uncoursed. The roofs are covered with a mix of pantiles, corrugated materials, and red clay 'Roman' tiles.
The complex includes several notable structures:
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An 18th-century barn with five bays, aligned east-west, featuring a midstrey to the north and a roof covered with pantiles. It has original great doors to the north and a hardwood frame with primary straight bracing on red brick footings. Most of the arched braces to the straight tiebeams have been replaced with bolted knees, and four bays of the clasped purlin roof have been rebuilt.
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A 19th/20th-century shelter shed with three bays located to the west of the midstrey, constructed with round poles and featuring a catslide roof that connects to the main roof.
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A 19th-century wagon lodge with four bays to the west, which has bolted knees on the tiebeams and a roof covered with 'Roman' tiles.
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A 19th-century shelter shed with four bays to the north of the wagon lodge, featuring a low-pitched lean-to roof of 'Roman' tiles supported by round poles, along with a full-length wooden hay-rack.
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A 19th-century shelter shed with five bays located to the north of the east end of the barn, made of red brick in English bond and topped with a low-pitched lean-to roof of corrugated tiles.
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A 19th-century shed to the northwest, built to a running level with red brick walls on the north and east sides, mainly uncoursed, and timber framed and weatherboarded on the south and west sides. It has a low-pitched roof of corrugated tiles.
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A 19th-century byre with three bays to the northwest, featuring a roof covered with corrugated tiles and a hipped end on the east side.
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A 19th-century stable block with four bays to the west, also roofed with corrugated tiles, which includes two halved doors with slatted vents above and one 19th-century casement window.
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A lean-to extension to the west of the stable block, featuring a hipped roof of plain tiles.
All the buildings are oriented towards the yard, enclosing it on the south, east, and north sides, and are included for their group value.
Local climate
Complex of Farm Buildings Approximately 40 Metres South East of Over Hall sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 660 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 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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