Barn Approximately 20 Metres to North West of Elms Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 January 1985. Barn.
Barn Approximately 20 Metres to North West of Elms Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- quartered-column-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 January 1985
- Type
- Barn
- OS grid reference
- TL 764 190
- Coordinates
- 51.84205, 0.56028
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This barn, located approximately 20 metres to the north-west of Elms Farmhouse, dates from the 16th or 17th century. It is constructed with a timber frame and is weatherboarded. The roof is half hipped and covered with red plain tiles, featuring staggered side purlins. A central gabled midstrey has a small hip, and there is a loft door on the gable end, along with a vertically boarded door and a window opening fitted with a side-hinged shutter. The structure primarily has straight braces to the tie beams, with some hanging knee replacements. There is one bay that includes a loft door.
Local climate
Barn Approximately 20 Metres to North West of Elms 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 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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