The Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. Barn.
The Barn
- WRENN ID
- inner-ashlar-spindle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1982
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- The Barn, Mott's Lane, Marks Tey
- OS grid reference
- TL 899 236
- Coordinates
- 51.8794, 0.75763
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Barn is a 17th century barn with five bays aligned east-west. It is currently clad in corrugated iron and features one aisle on the south side, along with a Kentish styled midstrey to the north. The main-posts on the south side are older than those on the north side. The barn includes side-girts, roof collars, and purlins, which incorporate soot-caked rafters from an older house. Much of the timber used in the barn comes from this older house, including durns from former doors and top-plates with shutter-grooves.
Local climate
The Barn sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 650 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 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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