Barn Approximately 50 Metres South of Valley Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1986. Barn.

Barn Approximately 50 Metres South of Valley Farmhouse

WRENN ID
stubborn-wall-burdock
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 March 1986
Type
Barn
OS grid reference
TL 729 297
Coordinates
51.93944, 0.51402
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a barn located approximately 50 metres south of Valley Farmhouse, dating from the 18th century. It features a timber frame that is weatherboarded and plastered, sitting on a high plinth made of red brick laid in Flemish bond. The roof is covered with corrugated asbestos and has five bays aligned roughly northeast to southwest, with a midstrey on the southeast side. There is a 19th-century brick and slate lean-to extension in the eastern angle. The roof is half-hipped at both ends and over the midstrey. The hardwood frame is jointed and pegged, with face-halved and bladed scarfs in the wallplates. Originally, the roof did not have tiebeams; instead, it used bolted knees to brace the wallposts to the principal rafters, along with clasped purlins, which were later reinforced by the addition of tiebeams.

Local climate

Barn Approximately 50 Metres South of Valley 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 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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