Purls Hill Farm Byre Adjoining Barn Qv 3/120 is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 July 1984. Byre.
Purls Hill Farm Byre Adjoining Barn Qv 3/120
- WRENN ID
- gentle-corner-furze
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 July 1984
- Type
- Byre
- OS grid reference
- TL 797 339
- Coordinates
- 51.97522, 0.61565
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Purls Hill Farm byre, dating from the late 18th century or early 19th century, is constructed of red brick and flint, with some sections featuring weatherboarding. It has a grey slate roof that includes four hipped ventilator cotes. The structure consists of nine bays, supported by timber with straight braces in each bay. This byre is an unusually large example from its period.
Local climate
Purls Hill Farm Byre Adjoining Barn Qv 3/120 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 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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