Marks Tey Hall South Barn is a Grade II* listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. Barn.
Marks Tey Hall South Barn
- WRENN ID
- first-corbel-peregrine
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1982
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Marks Tey Hall South Barn, Hall Chase
- OS grid reference
- TL 916 233
- Coordinates
- 51.87539, 0.7832
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Marks Tey Hall South Barn, formerly known as the Barn south of Marks Tey Hall, dates from around 1400. It features an exposed timber frame with brick nogging on the south side, consisting of three bays and two storeys. The roof is peg-tiled with a ridge and gables, and some full-height windows were added on the south side during the 20th century. Inside, the barn has a complete crown-post roof, with main posts that are jowled at the first floor and eaves heights. Although the first floor has been partly removed, it is supported by heavy binding joists and longitudinal bridging joists, which have housed soffits and shouldered tenons, similar to the common joists and side girts. Originally, there were two shuttered windows in each bay, one on the north and one on the south, with the sliders for the bases of the shutters still in place. The binding joists at each end are supported by heavy arch braces. The original purpose of the barn is uncertain, but it was fitted out as a granary at some early date.
Local climate
Marks Tey Hall South 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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