Small Barn at High Garret House is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 November 1984. Barn.

Small Barn at High Garret House

WRENN ID
far-forge-candle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 November 1984
Type
Barn
OS grid reference
TL 774 269
Coordinates
51.91291, 0.57872
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The small barn at High Garret House is a late 18th-century structure that is timber framed and weatherboarded, topped with a corrugated iron roof. It measures five bays in length, and most of the original frame is intact, featuring hanging knees to the tie beams. The barn has group value with the large adjoining barn.

Local climate

Small Barn at High Garret House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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