South Barn at Plesheybury is a Grade II listed building in the Chelmsford local planning authority area, England. Barn.
South Barn at Plesheybury
- WRENN ID
- waning-merlon-amber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chelmsford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Barn
- OS grid reference
- TL 657 142
- Coordinates
- 51.80233, 0.40195
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The South Barn at Plesheybury is a barn dating from the mid-17th century. It is constructed with a timber frame and is clad in weatherboarding, set on a brick plinth. The barn features a half-hipped roof that is covered with corrugated asbestos. There is a projecting cart entrance located on the north side. The structure consists of five bays and includes a midrail and diagonal braces in the wall frame. The roof has angled queen struts with through purlins and original rafters that do not have a ridgepiece. The frame is largely intact, except for the east end, where a full-height entrance was added in the 20th century to accommodate modern machinery.
Local climate
South Barn at Plesheybury 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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