Barn to South of Pond Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 August 1986. Barn. 1 related planning application.
Barn to South of Pond Farm
- WRENN ID
- lost-vestry-pearl
- 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 South of Pond Farm, Oak Road, Rivenhall, CM8 3HE
- OS grid reference
- TL 837 166
- Coordinates
- 51.81813, 0.66436
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A barn, dating to the early 18th century, is located to the south of Pond Farm. Originally a byre, it is now used as a barn. The barn has a timber frame and is weatherboarded, with a roof covered in corrugated asbestos. It is arranged with six bays running east to west, featuring lean-to outshots at the west end and on the north elevation to the east of an off-centre midstrey. Reused timber is evident in the frame, including mortices for large braces in the beams. The roof is a clasped side purlin design. Some plaster infill is present between studs on the west end walls. The midstrey, which still has threshold doors, lateral bracing and a large eaves overhang, contains an older frame, possibly reused from a nearby barn when it was reduced in size. The main roof is hipped with gablets, and the midstrey roof is also hipped. The barn is particularly significant when viewed from the roadside and forms a group with Pond Farmhouse and a large barn located to the west of Pond Farm.
Local climate
Barn to South 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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