Barn Aproximately 50 Metres East South East of Nichol's Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1986. Barn.
Barn Aproximately 50 Metres East South East of Nichol's Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- strange-rampart-cobweb
- 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 728 283
- Coordinates
- 51.92676, 0.51227
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This barn, located approximately 50 metres east-south-east of Nichol's Farmhouse, dates from the late 16th century. It is timber framed and weatherboarded, with a roof made of corrugated asbestos. The structure consists of three bays aligned northwest-southeast, featuring two aisles and a midstrey to the southwest.
The barn has jowled posts and heavy studding with straight bracing that is trenched to the inside. The original arched braces to the tiebeams have been replaced by bolted knees. It has a clasped purlin roof with tiebeams and collars at half-bay intervals, along with arched wind-bracing. Large double doors have been inserted at the southeast end.
Some elements of the barn show early features suggesting it has been rebuilt from a 13th-century barn. The northeast arcade plate displays a splayed and undersquinted scarf, while other areas feature face-halved and bladed scarfs. One unjowled arcade post includes an oblique trench for a passing brace. The original wattle and daub infill remains in the midstrey.
Local climate
Barn Aproximately 50 Metres East South East of Nichol's 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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