Barn to West of Sandon Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Chelmsford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 March 2000. Barn.

Barn to West of Sandon Hall

WRENN ID
stubborn-mantel-acorn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Chelmsford
Constituency
Maldon MP: Sir John Whittingdale (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
31 March 2000
Type
Barn
OS grid reference
TL 747 039
Coordinates
51.70691, 0.52787
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The barn located to the west of Sandon Hall dates from the late 17th century. It is timber framed and features weatherboarding, with roofs made of plain tiles on the west side and corrugated asbestos on the east side.

On the exterior, the west side has a 20th-century outshut to the north of the central transept entrance. The transept includes double timber doors to the south and has a hipped roof. The walls south of the transept are built in brick and contain one 20th-century fixed window with six panes. The roof is gabled, with half-hipped sections to the north and south. The east side has a full-length 20th-century outshut made of Fletton brick and features seven roof lights from the same period. There are 19th-century timber-framed and brick outshuts on the north and south returns, both weatherboarded and with half-hipped roofs.

Inside, the barn has five timber-framed bays with jowled principal studs and a middle rail, which support tie beams on arched braces (two of which have been replaced with straight ones). The roof features queen-post trusses, collars, and one tier of clasped purlins set within undiminished principals. The west flank has infill and studs below the middle rail removed, with the remainder lined with asbestos over the frame. The east transept is roofed with principals, secondaries, and one tier of purlins clasped with one straight collar.

Local climate

Barn to West of Sandon Hall 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 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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