Barn 40 Metres South East of Perces Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 April 1987. Barn.
Barn 40 Metres South East of Perces Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- dusted-portal-nightshade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 April 1987
- Type
- Barn
- OS grid reference
- TL 825 273
- Coordinates
- 51.91461, 0.65238
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a barn located 40 metres south-east of Perces Farmhouse, dating from the late 16th century. It is timber framed and weatherboarded, with a roof made of corrugated asbestos, resting on base walls of red brick laid in English bond. The barn has five bays aligned northeast to southwest, and features an 18th-century midstrey to the southeast. The main roof is half-hipped while the midstrey has a gabled roof.
Inside, there are jowled posts and arched corner bracing within heavy studding. The wallplates show edge-halved and bridled scarfs, and there are arched braces supporting the tiebeams. The roof structure consists of a butt-purlin system with additional clasped purlins in the upper pitches.
At the southwest end and in the southeast wall adjacent to it, the wall framing has been renewed using lighter studding and primary straight bracing. There is a brick partition that reaches tiebeam height to the southeast of the central bay, enclosing the arched braces. The midstrey interrupts the wallplate and features unjowled posts and primary straight bracing. Perces Farmhouse itself is not listed.
Local climate
Barn 40 Metres South East of Perces Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 660 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 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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