Barn of Noake's Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1985. Barn. 4 related planning applications.

Barn of Noake's Farm

WRENN ID
low-porch-hawthorn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 March 1985
Type
Barn
Address
Barn of Noake's Farm, Terling, CM3 3NG
OS grid reference
TL 745 139
Coordinates
51.79724, 0.52921
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The barn at Noake's Farm dates back to the early 14th century and has undergone alterations in the late 16th century and 17th to 18th centuries. It is timber framed, weatherboarded, and has a roof covered with corrugated iron. The structure consists of four bays aligned northwest to southeast, with an additional bay added to the southeast in the 18th century. There is a complete aisle to the northeast, which was rebuilt in the 17th to 18th centuries, and a late 16th-century midstrey to the southwest. Two bays of the aisle to the northwest of the midstrey were also rebuilt during the 17th to 18th centuries. A 20th-century lean-to extension is located to the southeast, incorporating the frame of an earlier, smaller lean-to. The roof is half-hipped at both ends.

The original 14th-century structure features jowled arcade posts with arched braces connecting to the arcade plates and tiebeams, along with the northwest end wall. The arcade plates exhibit splayed and tabled scarfs with undersquinted butts, edge keys, face keys, and face pegs. Two sections of the southwest arcade plate were renewed in the 17th to 18th centuries. The aisle walls were rebuilt during the same period using unjowled posts and primary straight bracing. The midstrey contains jowled posts and straight bracing set within heavy studding, while the southeast bay has unjowled posts and primary straight bracing. The roof was reconstructed in a clasped purlin style in the 17th to 18th centuries.

Local climate

Barn of Noake's Farm 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 86% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% 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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