Barn 55 Metres North West of Cresley's Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 April 1986. Barn.

Barn 55 Metres North West of Cresley's Farmhouse

WRENN ID
ruined-slate-jet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 April 1986
Type
Barn
Address
Barn 55 Metres North West of Cresley's Farmhouse, CM77 8PF
OS grid reference
TL 799 195
Coordinates
51.84546, 0.61082
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This building is a barn located 55 metres north-west of Cresley's Farmhouse, dating from the early 17th century. It is timber framed and weatherboarded, with a thatched roof featuring valleys of handmade red plain tiles. The barn consists of five bays aligned northeast-southwest, with an original two-bay midstrey situated to the southeast of the second bay from the northeast end. There is a 19th-century byre extending southeast from the southwest end, primarily constructed of red brick, partly weatherboarded, and roofed with red clay pantiles. Additionally, there is a 19th or 20th-century stable range to the northwest, made of red brick and also roofed with red clay pantiles. The barn features jowled posts, arched braces set inside close studding, face-halved and bladed scarfs in the wallplates, and arched braces to the tiebeam that have been replaced by bolted knees. It also has a clasped purlin roof with arched wind-braces.

Local climate

Barn 55 Metres North West of Cresley's 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 68% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% 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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