Byre 20 Metres East of the Hyde Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Brentwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1994. Byre.

Byre 20 Metres East of the Hyde Farmhouse

WRENN ID
sacred-floor-indigo
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Brentwood
Constituency
Brentwood and Ongar MP: Alex Burghart (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 December 1994
Type
Byre
Address
Byre 20 Metres East of the Hyde Farmhouse, CM4 0NX
OS grid reference
TL 610 002
Coordinates
51.67778, 0.32834
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The building is a byre, now used as a stable, dating from the late 17th century. It is timber-framed, covered with weatherboarding, and has a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. The structure consists of four bays facing southwest, which are wide enough to accommodate two lines of animals. There is a lean-to extension on the northwest side. The byre is adjacent to other buildings to the northeast and southwest, which are not of special architectural or historic interest.

The exterior features two 20th-century halved doors and three 20th-century fixed lights. Inside, the hardwood frame includes unjowled posts. The northeast internal tie-beam has braces that curve in a serpentine shape, and it is tenoned and pegged. The middle tie-beam features arched braces. The wallplates show face-halved and bladed scarfs. The roof has queen struts supporting a clasped purlin design.

Notably, the studding of the northwest wall has been removed, merging the lean-to with the main interior. Some posts have been repaired with concrete plinths. The northwest pitch of the roof in the two middle bays has been altered at an earlier date; the original rafters were tenoned and pegged to an in-pitch purlin supported by the tie-beams, while other rafters extend over the lean-to at a continuous lower pitch. A gap in the mortices for studding in the northwest wallplate suggests that there was originally an access point for animals on this side leading to the road. This building is a rare survival of its type and period.

Local climate

Byre 20 Metres East of the Hyde Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 670 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 96% 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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