Old Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. Barn.
Old Barn
- WRENN ID
- ragged-gable-saffron
- 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
- Old Barn, Old Barn Lane, Mount Bures
- OS grid reference
- TL 913 326
- Coordinates
- 51.95902, 0.78297
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Barn is an 18th-century barn that has been rebuilt using earlier timbers. It features a timber frame clad with black weatherboards and has a midstreys off-centre towards the west, facing south. The roof is hipped and covered with slate. The barn stands on red brick footings laid in Flemish bond. Inside, it has tie beams on knees and primary bracing, all made of flat-section oak.
Local climate
Old Barn sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 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 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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