Barn Approximately 30 Metres North of Lealands Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1986. Barn.

Barn Approximately 30 Metres North of Lealands Farmhouse

WRENN ID
guardian-arch-mint
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 739 311
Coordinates
51.95184, 0.53012
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This barn, located approximately 30 metres north of Lealands Farmhouse, dates back to the 16th century. It features a timber frame that is plastered and weatherboarded, with a roof made of corrugated asbestos. The barn consists of five bays arranged in a northwest-southeast direction and has a hipped gablet at the southeast end of the roof. Notable architectural details include jowled posts, heavy studding with curved tension braces that are trenched to the inside, and a crownpost roof with axial bracing.

Local climate

Barn Approximately 30 Metres North of Lealands Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% 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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