Barn East of Old House is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. Barn. 4 related planning applications.
Barn East of Old House
- WRENN ID
- shifting-zinc-raven
- 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
- Barn East of Old House, Station Road, Wakes Colne, CO6 2DR
- OS grid reference
- TL 897 291
- Coordinates
- 51.92869, 0.75891
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The barn east of Old House dates from around 1500 and is constructed with a timber frame, featuring black weatherboards and a corrugated asbestos roof. It consists of three bays aligned in a north-south direction, with posts that have jowls, arch-braces, and a raking-strut roof. The walls are externally wind-braced, and the collars are lapped to the rafters.
Local climate
Barn East of Old House 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- 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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