Prayors Farm, Barn Adjoining Road and Approximately 35 Metres South West of House is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1984. Barn.

Prayors Farm, Barn Adjoining Road and Approximately 35 Metres South West of House

WRENN ID
second-quoin-mallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 October 1984
Type
Barn
OS grid reference
TL 775 343
Coordinates
51.97959, 0.58321
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Prayors Farm is a barn dating from the 17th to 18th century, located approximately 35 metres south-west of the house along the road. The barn is timber framed and weatherboarded, featuring a red tiled gambrel roof that is half hipped to the left. It has a brick plinth, a vertically boarded door on the left, a central panelled door, and a red brick buttress. The barn is included for group value with the house and church nearby.

Local climate

Prayors Farm, Barn Adjoining Road and Approximately 35 Metres South West of 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 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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