Granary 13 Metres North of Arnold's Farmhouose is a Grade II listed building in the Brentwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1994. Granary.

Granary 13 Metres North of Arnold's Farmhouose

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Brentwood
Constituency
Brentwood and Ongar MP: Alex Burghart (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 December 1994
Type
Granary
OS grid reference
TQ 631 968
Coordinates
51.64659, 0.35659
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Granary located 13 metres north of Arnold's Farmhouse, dating from the 17th century. It is timber-framed, weatherboarded, and has a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. The structure consists of three bays aligned approximately northwest to southeast. There is a 19th-century ancillary building attached to the west, which is not of special architectural or historic interest. The granary is a single-storey building supported on eight original red brick piers in English bond.

On the northeast side, there is a plain boarded and ledged door, with a ladder of three treads below it. A slatted vent on this side is a 19th-century alteration, with a sill and stud below made of softwood. The southwest side features a blocked original window with three diamond mortices for the mullions of an unglazed window, although the sill has been replaced.

Inside, the granary has a high-quality hardwood frame that is fully jointed and pegged. It features unjowled posts, heavy studding, and primary straight bracing. There are two face-halved and bladed scarfs in the northeast wallplate and one in the southwest wallplate. Some hair plaster infill is present between the studs in the northwest and southeast walls. The two internal tie-beams each have a branching spur tie on each side, which are fully jointed and pegged to the tie-beam, with a barefaced lap dovetail to the wallplate; only the southeast tie-beam has queen struts to the collar. The roof is a clasped purlin type, with rafters of horizontal section that are halved and pegged at the apices, featuring bird-mouthed intermediate collars in the bays. This granary is a rare survival and has seen little alteration, deserving special care.

Local climate

Granary 13 Metres North of Arnold's Farmhouose 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 86% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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