Barn Approximately 25 Metres South East of Owl's Hall Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1986. Barn.
Barn Approximately 25 Metres South East of Owl's Hall Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- dark-cobalt-scarlet
- 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 738 306
- Coordinates
- 51.94736, 0.52782
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This barn, located approximately 25 metres south-east of Owl's Hall Farmhouse, dates from the late 16th century. It features a timber frame with walls clad in weatherboards, corrugated iron, and plaster, and is roofed with corrugated asbestos. The barn has five bays aligned from northeast to southwest, with a midstrey on the northwest side. It includes jowled posts and cambered tiebeams, two pairs of which have been replaced by bolted knees. The structure also has curved tension braces that are trenched outside the studs, and a clasped purlin roof with arched wind bracing.
Local climate
Barn Approximately 25 Metres South East of Owl's Hall 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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