Byre Approximately 25 Metres East of Wasses Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 October 1982. Agricultural.
Byre Approximately 25 Metres East of Wasses Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- idle-brass-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 October 1982
- Type
- Agricultural
- OS grid reference
- TL 761 156
- Coordinates
- 51.81202, 0.55353
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This byre, located approximately 25 metres east of Wasse's Farmhouse, dates from the late 17th century to early 18th century. It is constructed with a timber frame and is weatherboarded, featuring a thatched roof. The building has three bays aligned from northwest to southeast, with a half-hipped roof at both ends. On the southwest elevation, there is one halved door, while the northwest end has one high loading door. The structure includes primary straight bracing and a clasped purlin roof. It is listed for its group value with the nearby farmhouse.
Local climate
Byre Approximately 25 Metres East of Wasses 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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