Old Dairy Barn at Panfield Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 March 2000. Animal shelter. 2 related planning applications.
Old Dairy Barn at Panfield Farm
- WRENN ID
- lone-steeple-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 March 2000
- Type
- Animal shelter
- Address
- Old Dairy Barn at Panfield Farm, CM7 5AW
- OS grid reference
- TL 735 249
- Coordinates
- 51.89569, 0.52054
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Dairy Barn at Panfield Farm is an animal shelter built in the late 17th century, with an early 18th-century transept. It features a timber frame with weatherboarded cladding and a corrugated iron roof.
On the east side, there is a gabled transept entrance with a doorway offset to the left and two loading doors above. A 19th-century weatherboarded outshut has been added to the north of the transept. The west side has one central stable door.
Inside, the barn has three bays of framing with plain principal studs, and the center two have knuckle braces on the east side only. There are middle rails, and the roof consists of principal rafters, collars, and one tier of clasped purlins. The floor is cobbled, and there are animal feeding troughs against the north and south end walls. The transept is accessed through a doorway, and there is a middle rail to the frame on the north and south sides.
Local climate
Old Dairy Barn at Panfield Farm 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 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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