Barn of Knowles Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 March 1986. Barn.
Barn of Knowles Farm
- WRENN ID
- lone-pavement-cedar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 March 1986
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Barn of Knowles Farm, Hatfield Peverel
- OS grid reference
- TL 812 118
- Coordinates
- 51.7764, 0.62596
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The barn at Knowles Farm dates from the late 17th century. It is timber framed and weatherboarded, with a roof covered in corrugated iron. The structure consists of four bays arranged east to west, featuring a midstrey to the south and lean-to extensions on either side of the midstrey. Originally, the barn had an aisle only to the north, which is now infilled with later studding. The barn includes face-halved and bladed scarfs, arched braces to two tiebeams, while other tiebeams have been replaced with bolted knees. The frame is made of pegged hardwood with primary straight bracing and a clasped purlin roof. The base of the walls is partly concreted.
Local climate
Barn of Knowles Farm 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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