Bricks Farm Barn Approximately 50 Metres North of Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 April 1983. Barn.

Bricks Farm Barn Approximately 50 Metres North of Cottage

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 April 1983
Type
Barn
OS grid reference
TL 831 338
Coordinates
51.97253, 0.66481
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Bricks Farm Barn, located approximately 50 metres north of the cottage, is a barn dating from the late 18th century. It features a timber frame that is weatherboarded, with a half hipped roof clad in corrugated asbestos. The barn has two red plain tiled gabled midstreys and lean-to extensions at the front, along with a gabled extension to the right. It consists of 10 bays and has a complete frame with a lodged side purlin roof and intermittent collars. The top plates are joined with halved and bladed scarfs.

Local climate

Bricks Farm Barn Approximately 50 Metres North of Cottage 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 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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