Barn 10 Metres South East of Ashes Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1988. Barn.

Barn 10 Metres South East of Ashes Farmhouse

WRENN ID
old-span-vermeil
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 July 1988
Type
Barn
OS grid reference
TL 789 211
Coordinates
51.86058, 0.59797
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a barn located 10 metres southeast of Ashes Farmhouse, dating from around 1700. It features a timber frame, with walls primarily covered in weatherboarding and partly clad with corrugated iron. The roof is made of corrugated asbestos. The barn consists of five bays aligned northeast to southwest, with a two-bay midstrey on the southeast side.

Attached at the southern angle is an early 19th-century ancillary building made of red brick in Flemish bond, topped with a roof of red clay pantiles. There is also a 20th-century large farm building that connects to the midstrey on the southeast, which encloses large doors. The southwest gable end, facing the road, is clad with corrugated iron, while the rest of the barn is weatherboarded. The lower half features much of the original tarred hardwood boarding, while the upper half has softwood boarding that has replaced the original wattle and daub infill.

The main roof and the midstrey roof are both half-hipped. The barn has a jointed and pegged hardwood main frame, arched braces to the tiebeams, and primary straight bracing in the walls. The roof structure includes clasped purlins, and the original great doors remain in the midstrey.

Local climate

Barn 10 Metres South East of Ashes Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% 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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