Barn Approximately 90 Metres West of Great Slampseys is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 January 1985. Barn.
Barn Approximately 90 Metres West of Great Slampseys
- WRENN ID
- winter-portal-heron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 January 1985
- Type
- Barn
- OS grid reference
- TL 738 199
- Coordinates
- 51.85118, 0.52241
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This barn, located approximately 90 metres west of Great Slampseys, dates from the 15th to 16th century. It is constructed with a timber frame and is weatherboarded, featuring a roof clad in corrugated iron that is half hipped to the left with a gablet. The barn has a gabled midstrey with double vertically boarded doors, two aisles, and six bays. Inside, there is a two-armed crown post roof with arched braces supporting the tie beams. The structure incorporates much re-used medieval timber.
Local climate
Barn Approximately 90 Metres West of Great Slampseys 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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