Purls Hill Farm Barn Adjoining Road and Approximately 70 Metres South West of Purls Hill House is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 July 1984. Barn.
Purls Hill Farm Barn Adjoining Road and Approximately 70 Metres South West of Purls Hill House
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-cornice-blackthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 July 1984
- Type
- Barn
- OS grid reference
- TL 797 339
- Coordinates
- 51.97506, 0.6156
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Purls Hill Farm Barn is an 18th-century barn located adjacent to the road and approximately 70 metres southwest of Purls Hill House. The barn is timber framed and primarily covered with weatherboarding, featuring a flint and brick wall along the road frontage. It has a grey slate roof with a central gabled midstrey and consists of three bays. The structure includes a side purlin roof and through bracing to the walls.
Local climate
Purls Hill Farm Barn Adjoining Road and Approximately 70 Metres South West of Purls Hill House 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 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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