Barn Approximately 30 Metres South East of Wiggens Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 May 1984. Barn.

Barn Approximately 30 Metres South East of Wiggens Farmhouse

WRENN ID
small-spire-vale
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 May 1984
Type
Barn
OS grid reference
TL 663 423
Coordinates
52.05493, 0.42425
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a 16th-century aisled barn located approximately 30 metres southeast of Wiggens Farmhouse. The barn is timber framed and plastered, with a thatched roof. It consists of three bays aligned roughly north to south and features a lean-to midstrey on the east side. The structure includes jowled posts, cambered tiebeams, and arched braces connecting the tiebeams to the arcade plates. The face-halved scarfs have one end bladed and the other end housed. The aisle ties are jowled to the arcade posts, and there are two raking shores to each arcade post, originating from the aisle tie and sill. The barn has heavy studding and curved tension braces that are trenched to the outside of the studs. The roof is a clasped purlin type, with curved wind braces supporting the purlins, and all rafters are original. Inside the northern bay, there are four 19th-century stable stalls and an inserted floor. The barn shares close constructional similarities with another aisled barn at Bumpstead Hall.

Local climate

Barn Approximately 30 Metres South East of Wiggens Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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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