The Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 February 1979. Byre, house. 6 related planning applications.
The Barn
- WRENN ID
- pitched-quoin-sunrise
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 February 1979
- Type
- Byre, house
- Address
- The Barn, Lamarsh Hill, CO8 5EX
- OS grid reference
- TL 885 368
- Coordinates
- 51.99843, 0.7458
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Barn is a building that was originally a byre and has been converted into a house. It dates from around 1600 and was converted in 1980. The structure is timber framed, with the east elevation plastered and the rest weatherboarded, topped with a roof of black glazed pantiles. It consists of four unequal bays arranged approximately north-south, with the end bays being storeyed.
The east elevation, which faces Lamarsh Hill, features one 20th-century casement window and has a gablet roof with a cylindrical metal flue. The main entrance is located at the south end. On the west elevation, there is a pair of sliding glass windows along with three other windows of various types, including one fixed light in a gabled dormer and two skylights, all dating from the 20th century.
Inside, the building displays jowled posts and straight bracing to wallplates that are trenched inside heavy studs. It features face-halved and bladed scarfs, arched braces to cambered tiebeams, and low-pitched wind-bracing, some of which has been replaced. The middle bays are open to the roof, while the original entrances on the west and east sides have been blocked.
Local climate
The Barn 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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