Barn Adjoining Road and Approximately 50 Metres North of Piccott's Farmhouse is a Grade II* listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 January 1985. A Medieval Barn.
Barn Adjoining Road and Approximately 50 Metres North of Piccott's Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- spare-panel-sedge
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 January 1985
- Type
- Barn
- Period
- Medieval
- OS grid reference
- TL 708 256
- Coordinates
- 51.90362, 0.48183
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a barn located approximately 50 meters north of Piccott's Farmhouse in Great Saling, dating from the late 14th century to the early 15th century. It features a timber frame and is weatherboarded, with some areas covered in plaster. The barn has a brick plinth and a roof clad in corrugated iron, which is hipped to the left and half hipped to the right, complete with gablets.
The structure consists of seven bays and includes two midstreys, with the one on the left being hipped and a catslide on the right. It has arched braces supporting the tie beams and top plates, and the top plates are joined with halved and bridled scarfs. The eaves assembly is reversed outshot, and the jowled wall posts align with the top plate. All jowls feature a scotia above a return pattern, similar to those found in the barns at Powers Hall and Bradwell-Juxta-Coggeshall.
Additionally, there are arched braces to the aisle ties, wall, and storey posts. The tall square four-armed crown posts are braced to the centre purlin and tie beam. Inside, there is an edge brick threshing floor.
Local climate
Barn Adjoining Road and Approximately 50 Metres North of Piccott'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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