Barn to West of Whitehouse Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. Barn. 1 related planning application.

Barn to West of Whitehouse Farmhouse

WRENN ID
ruined-brick-fern
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Colchester
Constituency
Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 January 1982
Type
Barn
Address
Barn to West of Whitehouse Farmhouse, Porters Green, Birch, CO5 9HG
OS grid reference
TL 920 211
Coordinates
51.8561, 0.78757
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is an 18th-century barn located to the west of Whitehouse Farmhouse. It is timber framed and weatherboarded, featuring five bays and topped with a corrugated asbestos roof.

Local climate

Barn to West of Whitehouse Farmhouse 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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