Barn to North of Little Oliver's is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 October 1981. Barn.

Barn to North of Little Oliver's

WRENN ID
peeling-buttress-aspen
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Colchester
Constituency
Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 October 1981
Type
Barn
Address
Barn to North of Little Oliver's, Oliver's Lane, Stanway
OS grid reference
TL 967 215
Coordinates
51.85748, 0.85499
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a 16th-century barn located to the north of Little Oliver's on Oliver's Lane in Stanway. It features five bays and is constructed with black weatherboarding and a thatched roof. There is a gabled midstrey on the southwest side, and an extension has been added to the southeast.

Local climate

Barn to North of Little Oliver's 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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