Barn Approximately 40 Metres East of Place House is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 March 1985. Barn.

Barn Approximately 40 Metres East of Place House

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 March 1985
Type
Barn
OS grid reference
TL 674 303
Coordinates
51.94625, 0.43507
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This barn, located approximately 40 meters east of Place House, dates from around 1800. It features a timber frame and is weatherboarded, with a roof made of corrugated asbestos and corrugated iron over the midstrey. The barn has five bays aligned northeast to southwest, with a midstrey on the southeast side. There is an open lean-to shelter on the northeast side of the midstrey, also roofed with corrugated iron. The lower walls are constructed from rendered brickwork and breeze block. Inside, there is primary straight bracing in the walls, face-halved and bladed scarfs in the wallplates, and hanging knees supporting the tiebeams. The roof is a butt-purlin type with collars above the purlins. This barn is part of a complete group of farm buildings within the village, representing a rare survival of its kind.

Local climate

Barn Approximately 40 Metres East of Place House 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 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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