Barn Approximately 20 Metres North East of Summers Hall Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1986. Barn.
Barn Approximately 20 Metres North East of Summers Hall Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- low-footing-tide
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 March 1986
- Type
- Barn
- OS grid reference
- TL 741 303
- Coordinates
- 51.94401, 0.53176
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This barn, located approximately 20 meters north-east of Summers Hall Farmhouse, dates from the late 16th century and was altered in the 17th century. It is timber framed and weatherboarded, with a roof made of corrugated asbestos. The barn has five bays aligned roughly north-south, featuring a 17th-century midstrey to the east of the second bay from the north end. There are single-storey lean-to extensions on the south side of the midstrey and at the south end of the barn, both roofed with red clay pantiles. The structure includes jowled posts, heavy studding, and some arched braces to cambered tiebeams. It also has face-halved and bladed scarfs in the wallplates, a clasped purlin roof with inclined queen struts, arched wind-bracing, and a steep hip at the south end. The south bay is partitioned from the rest of the barn and is internally plastered, which conceals much of the original structure.
Local climate
Barn Approximately 20 Metres North East of Summers Hall Farmhouse 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 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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