Barn 50 Metres West of Sparrows Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 August 1986. Barn.
Barn 50 Metres West of Sparrows Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- night-garret-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 August 1986
- Type
- Barn
- OS grid reference
- TL 871 367
- Coordinates
- 51.99806, 0.72484
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a barn located 50 meters west of Sparrows Farmhouse, dating from the late 17th century. It features a timber frame and is covered in black weatherboarding. The roof is made of clay pantiles, with a gambrel profile on the west side and half-hipped ends. The barn consists of 10 bays, with symmetrically arranged midstreys that have gabled roofs on the east side. Between these midstreys are some open pantiled lean-tos. The threshing floor is made of old gault bricks.
Local climate
Barn 50 Metres West of Sparrows 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 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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