Barn Immediately South East of Crabb's Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1988. Barn. 3 related planning applications.
Barn Immediately South East of Crabb's Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- bitter-stronghold-tarn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1988
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Barn Immediately South East of Crabb's Farmhouse, Cranes Lane, Kelvedon, CO5 9AX
- OS grid reference
- TL 851 178
- Coordinates
- 51.82884, 0.68498
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This barn, dating from around 1500, is located immediately southeast of Crabb's Farmhouse in Kelvedon. It is timber framed, covered with weatherboarding, and has a roof made of handmade red plain tiles. The barn consists of four bays arranged in a northwest-southeast orientation, featuring a 17th-century midstrey to the southwest of the second bay from the northwest end. There is a lean-to extension at the southern angle, creating a catslide roof that connects with the main roof. The midstrey has double vehicle doors, which are boarded above and include one 20th-century window. The southeast end of the roof is hipped.
Architectural details include jowled posts, curved tension bracing set outside heavy studding, edge-halved and bridled scarfs in the wallplates, arched braces to cambered tiebeams, and a crownpost roof with axial bracing. The northwest end of the barn is integrated with the southeast bay of the farmhouse, and the original wattle and daub infill in this wall is nearly complete. The wallplates have been repaired.
Local climate
Barn Immediately South East of Crabb's Farmhouse 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 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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