Lower Farm Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. Barn.
Lower Farm Barn
- WRENN ID
- calm-joist-indigo
- 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
- Lower Farm Barn, Lower Farm Road, Boxted
- OS grid reference
- TM 006 336
- Coordinates
- 51.96547, 0.91913
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lower Farm Barn is a late 17th century barn consisting of 16 bays. It stands on red brick footings laid in English bond, which are 25 courses high and twice offset. The barn is clad in black weatherboards and features a thatched, ridged and gabled roof. There are two gabled midstreys facing north and a later open lean-to on the west side. The roof valleys are covered with peg tiles. The south side has great doors, while the gable ends have drying doors. The barn includes primary bracing but lacks side-girts, featuring hanging-knees, lapped collars, and side-purlins. Arch-braces are present only by the central midstry.
Local climate
Lower Farm Barn sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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