Barn Approximately 65 Metres East of Little Priory Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1986. Barn.
Barn Approximately 65 Metres East of Little Priory Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- long-alcove-twilight
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 March 1986
- Type
- Barn
- OS grid reference
- TL 743 256
- Coordinates
- 51.90248, 0.53303
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This barn, located approximately 65 metres east of Little Priory Farmhouse, dates from the early 18th century. It is timber framed and weatherboarded, with a roof covered in corrugated asbestos. The structure consists of five bays arranged in a northwest-southeast orientation, featuring a midstrey on the southwest side. There are lean-to extensions on both sides of the midstrey, one topped with a corrugated iron roof and the other with corrugated asbestos. The main roof and the midstrey are both half-hipped. The barn showcases pegged main framing, primary straight bracing, bolted knees to the tiebeams, and a joggled butt-purlin roof.
Local climate
Barn Approximately 65 Metres East of Little Priory 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 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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