Barn 45 Metres East of Fitzjohns Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Chelmsford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 November 1979. Barn.
Barn 45 Metres East of Fitzjohns Farm
- WRENN ID
- distant-casement-myrtle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chelmsford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 November 1979
- Type
- Barn
- OS grid reference
- TL 676 137
- Coordinates
- 51.79725, 0.42951
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an early 14th century timber-framed single aisle barn located 45 metres east of Fitzjohns Farm. It consists of five bays and was repaired towards the end of the same century, with one end rebuilt later. The exterior is weatherboarded and features a hipped tiled roof. There is a central hipped roof midstrey portal flanked by outshuts. Inside, the barn is a well-preserved example of high-quality farm architecture. The aisle is at the rear, where both the ruin span and aisle top plate have splayed and tabled scarf joints. The trout wall and top plate also have scarfed splayed and bridle butted joints. The queen post roof includes knee bracing and curved braced side purlins, rising from the lofty wall and aisle posts. The original midstrey frame and roof remain intact.
Local climate
Barn 45 Metres East of Fitzjohns Farm sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% 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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