Barn at Holders Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Chelmsford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 November 1985. Barn.
Barn at Holders Farm
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-brass-pine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chelmsford
- Constituency
- Chelmsford MP: Marie Goldman (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 November 1985
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Barn at Holders Farm, Pump Lane, Springfield
- OS grid reference
- TL 725 084
- Coordinates
- 51.74844, 0.49753
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The barn at Holders Farm is a structure dating from the late 17th century to early 18th century. It is timber framed and weatherboarded, topped with a roof made of corrugated iron. The barn consists of four bays and features a midstrey on the southwest side. The roof is half hipped at the eastern end. The hardwood frame is jointed and pegged, with a staggered framed side purlin roof, pegged collars, and arch braced tie beams. The walls have framed side girts, and the wall carpentered frame includes top plates, tie beams, storey posts, and side girts, all of which are stop-chamfered.
Local climate
Barn at Holders 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 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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