Barn at Junction of Doddinghurst Road is a Grade II listed building in the Brentwood local planning authority area, England. Barn. 2 related planning applications.
Barn at Junction of Doddinghurst Road
- WRENN ID
- noble-groin-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brentwood
- Constituency
- Brentwood and Ongar MP: Alex Burghart (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Barn at Junction of Doddinghurst Road, Church Lane, CM15 0QH
- OS grid reference
- TQ 590 990
- Coordinates
- 51.66754, 0.29919
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A barn, dating from the 17th, 18th and 20th centuries, now used as offices. The barn is timber-framed, with weatherboard and rendered sections, and has a peg-tiled roof that is hipped at the north end. It is aligned north-south and now stands two storeys high. The east front elevation has an outshut to the south, with a black-painted stack. The weatherboarding incorporates two rows of narrow 20th-century timber-framed windows designed to resemble wind eyes, with seven on the ground floor and four on the first floor. The north end is rendered, featuring a ground-floor range of four small 20th-century bay windows in pairs, supported by shaped wooden brackets. A peg-tiled pentice roof shelters a 20th-century glazed door between the northern pair of windows, with a square-paned window between the southern pair. The rear, west, elevation has a waggon porch in the centre of the south end, weatherboarded, with three upper 'wind eye' lights similar to those on the front. The ground floor has a simple 20th-century door, alongside three and two casement windows with 4x4 panes. Two lean-tos have peg-tiled and pantiled roofs. The north lean-to and north end wall are rendered with imitation timber framing and include two wooden-framed casement windows, each with four 3-pane lights.
The interior is oak-framed and comprises five bays, dating back to the 17th century. The waggon porch is likely a later addition. An additional bay was added to the north end in the 18th or early 19th century, built with rudimentary framing using reused timber. The main five bays feature stout framing with primary bracing. The principal frames have unjowled posts and cranked deep-arched braces to tie-beams and raking queen struts, with butt side purlins and rafters jointed to purlins. The wall plates have frequently face-halved and bridled scarf joints, always located at the principal frames, indicating progressive construction a bay at a time, a feature also observed in some other 17th-century barns in the area. Clear chiselled carpenters' assembly marks in Roman numerals are visible on the members of the principal trusses.
Local climate
Barn at Junction of Doddinghurst Road 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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