Barn at Great Sir Hughes Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Chelmsford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1975. Barn. 1 related planning application.
Barn at Great Sir Hughes Farm
- WRENN ID
- tall-hearth-poplar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chelmsford
- Constituency
- Maldon MP: Sir John Whittingdale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1975
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Barn at Great Sir Hughes Farm, West Hanningfield Road, Galleywood, CM2 7SZ
- OS grid reference
- TL 738 021
- Coordinates
- 51.69114, 0.51364
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a 16th-century timber-framed and weatherboarded barn situated at Great Sir Hughes Farm, accessed by a drive from West Hanningfield Road. The barn comprises five bays, including an aisle, with trussed purlins and double tie beams supported by queen posts. The roof is thatched.
Local climate
Barn at Great Sir Hughes 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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