Weatherboarded Barn at Oldhouse Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. Barn.
Weatherboarded Barn at Oldhouse Farm
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-rood-lake
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1982
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Weatherboarded Barn at Oldhouse Farm, Old House Lane, Boxted
- OS grid reference
- TM 001 307
- Coordinates
- 51.93889, 0.91083
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The weatherboarded barn at Oldhouse Farm dates from around 1600. It is timber framed and features a ridged and gabled roof covered with corrugated asbestos. The barn is four bays long and includes a midstrey in the second bay from the right. The midstrey is rendered and gabled, with newly installed Great Doors. The structure has side girts and primary bracing above them, as well as arch-braces, raking-struts, collars, and side-purlins.
Local climate
Weatherboarded Barn at Oldhouse Farm sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 670 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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