Barn 15 Metres East of Howletts Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Brentwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 August 1980. Barn.

Barn 15 Metres East of Howletts Hall

WRENN ID
long-ember-weasel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Brentwood
Constituency
Brentwood and Ongar MP: Alex Burghart (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 August 1980
Type
Barn
OS grid reference
TQ 522 976
Coordinates
51.65728, 0.19996
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The barn located 15 metres east of Howletts Hall dates from the 17th and 18th centuries. It is timber-framed and weatherboarded, topped with a peg-tiled roof. This barn is notable for having 15 bays, making it the longest in the district. There is a midstrey at bay 9 and a porch on the west side. At the southern end, a red brick cottage has been built onto and into the barn.

Inside, the barn features trusses with collars and tie-beams, as well as queen posts with small raking struts supporting the principal rafters. The side purlins are tenoned into the principal rafters and staggered across the successive bays. The wall plates show face halved and bladed scarfs, and the side walls have primary braced framing. The variations in construction along the barn's length indicate a 17th-century origin with 18th-century alterations.

Local climate

Barn 15 Metres East of Howletts Hall sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 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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