Farm Building Group of Barn and Granary Approximately 35 Metres South West of Ovington Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1984. Barn, granary.

Farm Building Group of Barn and Granary Approximately 35 Metres South West of Ovington Hall

WRENN ID
western-spandrel-rook
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 May 1984
Type
Barn, granary
OS grid reference
TL 761 426
Coordinates
52.05385, 0.56838
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a farm building group consisting of a barn and a granary, located approximately 35 metres southwest of Ovington Hall. The barn dates from the 19th century and features six bays, while the attached granary to the right has five bays and is two storeys high. The structure is timber framed and weatherboarded, with brick and flint rubble plinths. The barn has a roof made of corrugated asbestos, while the granary is topped with a Roman tile roof. The barn's walls include through bracing and hanging knees supporting the tie beams.

Local climate

Farm Building Group of Barn and Granary Approximately 35 Metres South West of Ovington Hall 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 74% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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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